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Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

MishTalk

Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation? Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market. The risk premiums of risky securities have become unsustainably compressed in the process, and the Feds balance sheet has metastasized to $3.5 Minsky noted that ‘euphoria’ might develop at this stage.

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. Finding, developing, and retaining this talent is hard — so much so that the business press refers to a “war” for talent. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

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Blockchain Will Transform Customer Loyalty Programs

Harvard Business

IBM, for example, is partnering with startup Loyyal to develop blockchain infrastructure for loyalty and rewards programs. First, blockchain could help relieve a large balance-sheet liability that many in the industry are facing. Early adopters could benefit considerably.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. What’s a typical independent director’s worst nightmare? It’s not surprising.

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Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies

Harvard Business

This becomes clear when you look at a company’s two most important financial statements: the balance sheet and the income statement. Let’s first look at the balance sheet. Therefore, the balance sheets of physical and digital companies present entirely different pictures.

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Greek default in all but name - Tom Spencer consulting blog

Tom Spencer

This is clever politicking because a “private-sector involvement” sounds like a positive development. Undeterred however by rating agency definitions, European leaders have characterised the writedown as a voluntary “ private-sector involvement ” or PSI.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

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