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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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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. Case Interviews. Would a Bund by any other name smell as sweet? in Economics. How could Dexia fail?

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Coronavirus & Consulting Offers

Tom Spencer

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. They just went through, at great expense, the interviewing and hiring of a new “class” of undergraduate consultants. Commerce has ground to a halt. Today, not so much.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business

Immediately after joining Nikon, he decided to interview some of them. For its part, Nikon focused on cost optimization opportunities and balance sheet management when communicating to value-oriented investors and on long-term structural changes when communicating to growth-oriented investors. What he heard was uncomfortable.

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Can the Fed Really Print Money? What Would Negative Interest Rates Do?

MishTalk

Despite the unprecedented increase in the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet, growth in M2 over the first nine months of this year fell below its average rate of growth over the past 115 years, a time when the growth in the monetary base was stable and quite modest. In the second interview Bernanke stated " We're not printing money.

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Has COVID-19 Derailed Your Planning? Tips From a Crisis Management Expert

Martinka Consulting

For tips on how to minimize damage I interviewed my friend Dan Weedin, who is a crisis and disaster management expert (you can see more about Dan at www.danweedin.com). Know what’s happening with governments and their policies. If you have a line of credit, consider using it to get cash on your balance sheet.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

Entrepreneurship ecosystems are composed of many different stakeholders and include large companies, universities, banks, media, and the government, all of whom push and pull more local companies to grow more rapidly. We taught journalists how to interview entrepreneurs and elicit their stories of growth.