Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The travel and hospitality industries have been decimated, stock markets around the world have tanked, and governments struggle to combat this devil on so many fronts. If the firms don’t have a strong balance sheet, if they foresee a potential cash flow problem, or if they have clients in particularly hard hit industries, I’d be concerned.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 26, 2013

Inquiring minds are monitoring the Fed''s Balance Sheet. One more week like this and the FED balance sheet will be $1 trillion more than last year at this time. Three rounds of so-called quantitative easing have enlarged the Fed’s balance sheet to almost $3.8 click on chart for sharper image.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

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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MishTalk

MARCH 19, 2014

The Fed’s tapering merely slows the growth of its balance sheet. The rarely admitted truth, however, is that there is no need for central banks’ balance sheets to shrink. They could stay permanently larger; and, for some countries, permanently bigger central-bank balance sheets will help reduce public-debt burdens.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Having already cut interest rates to record lows and saying they can go no lower, Draghi is now focused on boosting the ECB’s balance sheet. We are quite confident that the impact on our balance sheet size will be adequate, will be significant, will be sizable,” Draghi said. trillion] more than the current level.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Venezuela uses a de-facto dual-exchange rate system, but policy changes recently enacted by the Venezuelan government are affecting the way that certain imports — i.e, bolivare-per-USD rate, thus the near-$300 million charge P&G now expects to incur on its third quarter balance sheet. bolivares per one U.S.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 26, 2014

The results of the ECB’s examination of balance sheets worth €22tn, known as the Asset Quality Review, will require the 130 lenders who took part in the exercise to adjust the value of their assets in their accounts or prudential requirements. The 130 banks account for 81.6 per cent of all eurozone assets. Paraphrasing Guru.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 6, 2013

What Has Government Done to Our Money? 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.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Draghiz e: "The test is credible because the ultimate purpose of it is to restore or strengthen private sector confidence in the soundness of the banks, in the quality of their balance sheets" Mish : The test is credible because we say it is. It is what they call "enforce the triple A".

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MishTalk

AUGUST 22, 2013

Inflation Benefit 2: The federal government debt goes away. Inflation Benefit 3 (?): "Balance sheet recession" might go away! Balance sheet recession" might go away!? We have a balance sheet recession precisely because of an inflationary asset bubble gone bust. Inflation benefits conservatives!?

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 6, 2023

It reflects the bank’s assessment of potential losses it may incur and its commitment to maintaining a strong balance sheet. Income tax and indirect tax are two additional types of taxes levied by governments. Additionally, it provides insights into the overall quality and soundness of a bank’s loan portfolio.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 26, 2014

Now the governments of both Venezuela and Argentina have reacted – the former by introducing a ''second bolivar exchange rate'' for certain types of exchanges, the latter by stopping to defend the peso''s value in the markets by means of central bank interventions.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 25, 2018

These flies made their way into the citrus farms, destroying crops, causing a government quarantine and destruction of infected fruit. Moreover, balance sheet data from the Federal Reserve shows that the acquired assets have remained fairly consistent in value, indicating that the underlying assets were not altogether a lost cause.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Japan wants inflation but it''s balance sheet is so bloated that a rise in interest rates of a mere 2% or so would consume 100% of government revenue. Buyers of Only Resort The buyer of only resort for Japanese government bonds is the Bank of Japan. No investors would touch Japanese bonds in this setup.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Draghize : "The test is credible because the ultimate purpose of it is to restore or strengthen private sector confidence in the soundness of the banks, in the quality of their balance sheets". Draghize : "The region’s governments will be ready to fill any capital holes that emerge as a result of the stress tests.".

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Governing Council decided today to lower the interest rate on the main refinancing operations of the Eurosystem by 10 basis points to 0.05% and the rate on the marginal lending facility by 10 basis points to 0.30%. The Governing Council decided to start purchasing non-financial private sector assets. Banks if and only if.

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MishTalk

JULY 30, 2014

Soon, all of Germany’s coal-fired power plants will be dependent on imports, with the country expected to halt coal mining in 2018 when government subsidies end. That’s because it shifts some pollution — and the burden for cleaning it — onto another other country’s balance sheet. increasingly has helped supply.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The European Central Bank’s first offer of cheap four-year loans has fallen short of expectations, dealing a blow to president Mario Draghi’s hope of sustaining the eurozone’s ailing economy by expanding the central bank’s balance sheet. With inflation as low as 0.4

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Tom Spencer

JULY 25, 2021

In order to develop a more coherent world view that can reliably inform individual, business and government decision making, we must be willing to question some of the basic ideas that are foundational to mainstream economic thinking. Rational decision making. No, we didn’t think so.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Subordinated debt has a lower priority than other bonds of the issuer in case of liquidation during bankruptcy, and ranks below the liquidator, government tax authorities and senior debt holders in the hierarchy of creditors. Subordinated debt is issued periodically by most large banking corporations in the U.S. Also consider "stress tests".

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

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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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2013

But over the past two years, the government has rolled back its controls, lifting all restrictions on lending rates and giving banks more freedom to determine deposit rates. Advocates have called for such a system for years, saying it is the cornerstone of further financial reform.

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MishTalk

JUNE 26, 2013

What Has Government Done to Our Money? Bernanke says the US economy is solid enough that the Fed can begin tapering its balance sheet purchases later this year. Given the stock and bond market bubbles the Fed has created, the Fed of course should taper (not that it should ever have expanded its balance sheet in the first place).

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MishTalk

AUGUST 22, 2014

Via the LTRO, Draghi succeeded in suppressing yields of European government bonds, but at the expense of creating a bond bubble. What about mark-to-market valuations of loans and assets on the balance sheets of banks? That they do not yield the same is proof enough. Are loan loss provisions high enough?

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Martinka Consulting

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Without effective leadership you have a dysfunctional organization, whether it’s a government, business, or non-profit. From bidding (his expertise), to sales (he was good once it got to the technical part), and accounting (of which he knew almost nothing, especially regarding the balance sheet). we need bike lanes).

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Bernanke is doing what he was appointed to do.keep the money coming for the US Government to spend, thereby monetizing all expenditures no matter the purpose. Governments took him at his word and his business grew exponentially so he must have been doing something right or as Lloyd Blankfein said "doing God''s work!".

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MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

Government debt-to-GDP ratios have risen further; in several cases, they appear to be on an unsustainable path. Historical evidence shows that this rarely happens following a balance sheet recession. They are simply too slow-moving for policymakers and observers whose attention is focused on shorter-term output fluctuations.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Having lost access to the capital markets, the Greek government relied on the bailout funds to pay its bills. With the public accounts edging closer to a primary surplus, the government feels it has a stronger hand to play. Samaras Forced to Act Tough The Financial Times warns Samaras. But what is Samaras to do?

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MishTalk

APRIL 7, 2014

The British want to clarify that central banks can extend liquidity even when relying on a specific government guarantee, without triggering haircuts on bondholders. By contrast she wants state guarantees for bank bonds “outlawed” as it would open a loophole that protected private investors from risk.

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MishTalk

JUNE 28, 2013

What Has Government Done to Our Money? The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. While these reforms may improve FHAs balance sheet over the long term, they would also reduce market liquidity, which in turn could cause home prices to fall. 3 "Implode-O-Meters" Mortgage Lenders. Home Builders.

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MishTalk

JUNE 10, 2015

Headlines for Next 6-7 Months US, German and EU core government bonds will be 100 basis points higher by and in Q4 before making final new low in H1 2016. Central Bank Balance Sheets Excuse me? Hard even to see change in ECB balance sheet. Via email, the rest of what follows is a guest post from Steen Jakobsen.

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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.

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Comatch

MAY 23, 2022

Balance sheet total of no more than £5.1 Whilst these cases were mainly a recirculation of revenue from one government department to another, the easily forgotten losers were the contractors who shared in the tax burden. Notable of these has been the government-backed company Network Rail. No more than 50 employees.

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MishTalk

JULY 16, 2014

Rather than repairing its balance sheet by reducing debt, the U.S. Yesterday, in Corporate and Government Bonds: Where to From Here? and in sharp contrast to all of those who see a US treasury bond bubble, I stated: " The worry about US government bonds is, for the time, overblown. Total debt rose to 349.3%

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LSA Global

MAY 9, 2019

It is not just the purview of finance to interpret the numbers that govern profit and loss; it behooves every employee to understand how and why the company makes money, spends money, and measures financial performance. Study the Balance Sheet. With term definitions in hand, analyze your company’s balance sheet.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2015

The total debt of households, non-financial enterprises and the general government sector as a share of GDP is higher now than it was at the beginning of the GFC. The balance sheet of the Swiss National Bank has expanded even more impressively, again with no discernable impact on the inflation rate.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 17, 2013

France and some Southern European countries, meanwhile, have been pushing to use the euro-zone government bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism, as the common backstop. Deposit guarantees are as good as the ability of the national government to back them. The common resolution funds are not automatically available.

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