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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. This is not surprising: Growing regulation, increased investor focus on governance issues, and scary new categories of corporate risk (e.g.

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Government About to Destroy American Mortgages Permanently Warns Dick Bove; Mish Says Nonsense

MishTalk

Finance reports Government About to Destroy American Mortgages Permanently. These two government-sponsored entities – along with the smaller Government National Mortgage Association ("Ginnie Mae", a government corporation that broke off from Fannie Mae) – issued 98% of the $1.4 Citing Dick Bove, Yahoo!Finance

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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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Consultant Ninja: A Simple Question about the Credit Markets.

Consultant Ninja

Heres my understanding of the current TARP/TARPII/PPIP/etc plans: The major "sick" banks wont lend to businesses, because their balance sheets are tied up with bad assets that they cant sell. The government will buy those assets, freeing up the major banks to loan again to businesses. Posted by Consultant Ninja. at 7:39 PM.

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Cash Flow Relief for Independent Consultants: the CARES Act & Other Ideas

Successful Independent Consulting

government 2. government Most individuals with less than $75,000 in income on their federal tax returns can expect a one-time cash payment of $1,200 within the next three weeks. There are several ways to get some cash-flow relief to help you pay your bills in the near term as a result of the $2 trillion CARES Act: 1. Time sensitive!

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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. Banks lend if and only if.

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Would a Bund by any other name smell as sweet?

Tom Spencer

ON WEDNESDAY November 23rd, an auction of German government bonds (known as “Bunds”) managed to sell only €3.6 Thirdly, European banks are currently focused on building their balance sheets not on lending. Would a Bund by any other name smell as sweet? in Economics. How could Dexia fail?