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Draghi Pressures ECB to Buy "Junk-Rated" Loan Bundles of Greece and Cyprus

MishTalk

On September 4, ECB President pulled out a financial bazooka including a pledge to build up the ECB''s balance sheet by another €1 trillion. In this case, the stench on Greek bank balance sheets will not go away. Instead, stench will also appear on the balance sheet of the ECB.

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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business

In effect, they all had skin in the game, which remains one of the most elusive elements of modern finance. When we buy an insurance policy at an individual household level or for a large, complex business or project, the only items that seal the deal are some papers with promissory statements.

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The Globalization Backlash Is Reverberating Through Boardrooms

Harvard Business

As a practical matter, for example, these changes in the global policy regime are forcing multinational corporations to scale back and sell parts of their international operations. Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988.

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BIS Slams the Fed; Ridiculous Question of the Day: "Is The Fed Going To Attempt A Controlled Collapse?"

MishTalk

Monetary policy is testing its outer limits. The normalisation of the policy stance has hardly started. Historical evidence shows that this rarely happens following a balance sheet recession. Accommodative monetary policy has had an ambiguous impact on the adjustment to lower debt ratios.

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2008 Financial Crisis – Causes and historical context

Tom Spencer

Many an economics and finance course later, I see that the layers of complexities to the 2008 financial crisis are innumerable. Banks would rather store their money at the Fed than lend it to finance potentially risky projects. We were shocked, how could no one have seen the collapse coming? It all seemed so clear.

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Start of a Global Currency Crisis?

MishTalk

Since they have maintained artificial exchange rates – coupled with capital controls, price controls and other coercive and self-defeating economic policies – people have of course felt it necessary to get their money out any way they can.

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M&A deals – benefits and drawbacks

Tom Spencer

If there are debts owed by each organization, then the M&A process may increase the total balance sheet debt of the combined company. Let’s say Company A doesn’t have an official dress code policy. Cultural differences : there can be differences in corporate culture that are not easy to consolidate.