Tom Spencer

JULY 7, 2023

We repeated our request a week later, but they only provided a balance sheet from the previous year. For example, instead of asking for the average payroll for each department over time, ask for a representative current salary of an employee in each department: sales, operations, finance.

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Data Consulting Balance Sheet Analysis 78

Harvard Business

JANUARY 16, 2017

To restore its balance sheet, it had to sell half the business. Consequently, the finance group, the risk organization, and the nonexecutive directors do most of this work. The finance group scrutinizes capital requests. After three years the company wrote off three times the acquisition cost.

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Company Government Balance Sheet System 70

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

My friends and I walked out of the Big Short several years ago feeling like a group of global financial crisis experts. Many an economics and finance course later, I see that the layers of complexities to the 2008 financial crisis are innumerable. We were shocked, how could no one have seen the collapse coming? It all seemed so clear.

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Financial Banking Balance Sheet Cash Flow 60

MishTalk

JANUARY 28, 2014

"Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the world''s largest bank by assets, said on Thursday that it has no plans to use its own money to repay investors in a troubled off-balance-sheet investment product that it helped to market." Investors should have taken a hit. Certainly the promised 10% yield was too good to be true.

Banking 67

Banking Balance Sheet Productivity Financial 67

Tom Spencer

MAY 9, 2020

The smaller the group of people, the easier it is to reach agreement on what to use as money. For example, if the US government spends more than it collects in taxes, it can finance the budget deficit by selling bonds. I now know that money is simply any asset that is generally accepted as a means of payment to settle debts.

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System Banking Government Insurance 88

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

We are often told that a fall in housing prices won’t affect the real economy in China much because, unlike in the US, the amount of real estate financed by mortgages is quite low. This means that the foreign currency reserves are simply the asset side of a balance sheet against which there are liabilities.

Real Estate 55

Real Estate Banking Government Balance Sheet 55

MishTalk

JUNE 26, 2015

BitGold just completed a financing for C$18 million, which included some top name institutional investors. After this financing, BitGold’s two main owners are the shareholders of GoldMoney and Roy Sebag, whose understanding of gold is as deep as anyone I have ever met. In contrast, GoldMoney and BitGold are debt-free.

Insurance 28

Insurance Insurance Balance Sheet Financial 28

MishTalk

MARCH 17, 2014

This model rests on an understanding of how distortions in the savings rates of different countries have driven the great trade and balance-sheet distortions with which we are wrestling today, just as they have in most previous global crises, including those of the 1870s, the 1930s, and the 1970s.

Banking 59

Banking Real Estate Productivity Policies 59

MishTalk

JULY 10, 2013

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. Participants also described their views regarding the appropriate path of the Federal Reserves balance sheet. scenario," and "left us with no clear picture as to what the group is.

Real Estate 50

Real Estate Financial Policies Case Interview 50

MishTalk

JANUARY 3, 2014

Had I suggested in 2007 that the Fed balance sheet expansion of $75 billion a month would have been considered "tightening" people would have thought I was nuts. Total credit in the economy (total social financing) showed a 40 per cent rise in November over the prior month and is on course for growth this year of almost 20 per cent.

Conference 72

Conference Banking Government Balance Sheet 72

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 12, 2020

Below we will take a brief look at the mainstream view of macroeconomics, the nature of the Cantillon Effect, and how it leads to predictable – and some would say ‘unjust’ – enrichment of certain groups in a society at the expense of others. Mainstream Economics: Keynesianism. trillion over the last 5 months.

Banking 120

Banking Balance Sheet Financial Real Estate 120