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Would a Bund by any other name smell as sweet?

Tom Spencer

Germany is one of the most financially stable countries in the Euro-zone, so its failure to sell all of its Bunds is worth examining. Thirdly, European banks are currently focused on building their balance sheets not on lending. While Bunds may still smell sweet, weak financial markets in Europe are a cause for concern.

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Greek default in all but name - Tom Spencer consulting blog

Tom Spencer

European leaders are now using the same brand of financial wizardry which created the global financial crisis in the first place. Characterising the writedown of Greek debt as “private sector involvement” is more of the same financial manipulation, but it is also shrewd politics. Case Interviews. Categories.

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Rising COVID cases, falling economy

Tom Spencer

Since the start of February this year, the Fed has expanded its balance sheet by more than $2.4 To put that in context, the Fed was created in 1913, and its total balance sheet assets only reached $2.4 trillion in assets, but only 2 months to achieve the same amount of balance sheet expansion this year.

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Coronavirus & Consulting Offers

Tom Spencer

During the dotcom bubble, the financial crisis, and the real estate bubble, what did consulting firms do? They just went through, at great expense, the interviewing and hiring of a new “class” of undergraduate consultants. Three prior downturns, what can we learn? The larger firms like Bain, BCG, and McKinsey kept their promises.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business

Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US. Immediately after joining Nikon, he decided to interview some of them. What he heard was uncomfortable.

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M&A deals – benefits and drawbacks

Tom Spencer

building financial models like DCF, accretion/dilution, LBO, etc.). Enhanced financial resources : the financial wherewithal of two companies is generally greater than one alone, making new investments possible. Reduced labor costs : eliminating staffing redundancies can help reduce costs. Potential Drawbacks. Image: Pixabay.

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Jeremy Grantham 1999, Jeremy Grantham Today: "Over Next Seven Years, Market Will have Negative Returns"

MishTalk

Over Next Seven Years, Market Will have Negative Returns" I strongly encourage you to read an interview of Jeremy Grantham, by Stephen Gandel, senior editor of Fortune : The Fed is Killing the Recovery. It''s well worth reading the entire interview. Please consider this Forbes Interview of Jeremy Grantham , by Steve Forbes, from 2009.