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Paying People To Get Vaccines: The Ultimate Economic Stimulus?

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Among the economic principles you’ll find in textbooks: People do what they find rewarding. As we reported earlier this week, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin stated during testimony before the Senate banking committee that restaurants are in need of significant grants (not loans). Payments Players Might Have The Answer.

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Return on Equity, Earnings Yield and Market Efficiency: Back to Basics!

Musings on Markets

Carrying this through to the real world, you should not be surprised to see technology and pharmaceutical companies, the two biggest spenders on R&D, report much higher accounting returns than they are actually earning on their investments.

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Russia in Ukraine: Let Loose the Dogs of War!

CFO News Room

As the world’s attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. Ukraine, a part of the Soviet Union, has had its shares of ups and downs, and its economic footprint is even smaller.

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Russia in Ukraine: Let Loose the Dogs of War!

Musings on Markets

As the world's attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. Ukraine, a part of the Soviet Union, has had its shares of ups and downs, and its economic footprint is even smaller.

Economics 100
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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

Barry Ritholtz

STEVEN KLINSKY, FOUNDER, CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR, NEW MOUNTAIN CAPITAL: I come from the Detroit area of Michigan as a public school kid, went to University of Michigan and studied both economics and philosophy. September 13, 1981, I think the 10-year Treasury was 15.84 RITHOLTZ: Sorry about the theft of that last (inaudible).

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Transcript: Joel Tillinghast, Fidelity

Barry Ritholtz

He developed the Ginnie Mae contract, which at one time was a big thing in treasury bond contract. I’m going to be skeptical about analyst adjusted earnings and look to free cash flow is a confirming, but, but I also wanna see, is it one of those cases where the analyst adjustments are economically realistic or are they excuses?

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Investing Politics: Globalization Backlash and Government Disruption!

Musings on Markets

That said, to value companies today, I have no choice but to bring in the economics and politics of the world that these companies inhabit. China : The biggest winner from globalization has been China, which has seen its economic and political power surge over the last four decades.