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

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

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Reader Question: Does the.

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Reader Question: Does the Fed Balance Sheet Properly Reflect QE Announcements? The feds balance sheet doesnt reflect it. The balance sheet was up $720 billion from Aug 1, 2012 to Aug 1, 2013 ($309B in treasuries and $393B in MBS) but that is only $60B per month. Feds Balance Sheet. QE History.

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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business

Insurance policies and lottery tickets have the same payoff properties, with the one claimed on bad news or undesirable events and the other claimed by very happy lottery winners. They both rely on odds — and accrue massive amounts of hopes, aspirations, risks, and, naturally, money. Flood insurance is another example.

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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business

For example, at the end of its 2015 fiscal year, Apple’s balance sheet stated tangible assets of $290 billion as a contribution to its annual revenues, with approximately $141 billion worth of intangible assets — a combination of intellectual capital, brand equity, and (investor and consumer) goodwill.

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5 Ways to Increase Your Cross-Selling

Harvard Business

The company does deep data mining through multiple sources to spot signature events in customers’ lives. Those events trigger USAA to contact the customer at just the right time, with just the right offer, such as auto insurance when a customer’s daughter is about to turn 16. Take a balance-sheet view.

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We Need to Approach AI Risks Like We Do Natural Disasters

Harvard Business

Nor have they set up safety and security protocols for potential Black Swan AI events. Today, some leading insurers are suggesting security procedures that companies could follow to attend to information breaches and interruptions in the event of a global failure of interconnected systems. Insight Center. The Risks and Rewards of AI.

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

Harvard Business

Most major producers with large balance sheets will likely hedge their bets and attempt both. Or they can develop conventional reservoirs where it will require long-term investments in new technologies to bring the cycle times and costs more in line with those of nimble shale producers.

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