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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? 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. Three prior downturns, what can we learn?

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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. Draghi confirmed the asset purchases would " include the real estate, the RMBS, real estate ABS. In this case, the stench on Greek bank balance sheets will not go away.

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ECB Now a Hedge Fund; €1T Bazooka; ECB Promotes Euro Carry Trade; Draghi Has it Backwards

MishTalk

Question: Mr Draghi, you said that the new measures and the TLTROs will have a sizeable impact on your balance sheet. So all this makes a precise estimate of the impact that these transactions will have on our balance sheet very complicated, especially at the stage when none of these operations have as yet been undertaken.

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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. I am a strategy consultant at. A Simple Question about the Credit Markets. Posted by Consultant Ninja. at 7:39 PM. Labels: Analysis.

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

MishTalk

The answer to that question is that we no longer have things like 20-year and 30-year mortgages because banks are not going to put that type of mortgage on their balance sheets. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.' And we won''t have fixed-rate mortgages."

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Bulls and Bears Debate China: Property Bubble Expands Again; GDP Growth Picks Up; Economic Recovery Underway? No Says Michael Pettis

MishTalk

A series of land sales have set record prices since August, with real estate developers ramping up their competition for the best plots in the biggest cities. Part of it may simply be that few Chinese see any real alternative to real estate as a way of saving. China Rich in Reserves. Pettis Replies.

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

MishTalk

Investors’ attraction to riskier credit also spawned greater issuance in assets such as payment-in-kind notes and mortgage real estate investment trusts (mREITs). Historical evidence shows that this rarely happens following a balance sheet recession. Restoring sustainable global growth poses significant challenges.