#Balance sheet

Listening to Wall Street analysts, or their financial press cheerleaders, one would be left with the impression that earnings season has been gangbusters, and the recent 2-3 quarters of growth are sure to lay the basis for a new golden age in which EPS rises at double-digit rates for years to come.

Reverting to one of his favorite topics - namely how the application of a statistical average of a sharply bimodal sample tends to muddle the resulting signal, something Ray Dalio expounded on as recently as last month- on Monday morning, SocGen's Andrew Lapthorne explains not only why the true

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Here's a chart of our fabulous always-higher GDP, adjusted for another bogus metric, official inflation. The theme this week is The Rot Within. The rot eating away at our society and economy is typically papered over with bogus statistics

Authored by Bryce Coward via Knowledge Leaders Capital blog, The Federal Reserve is likely to decide next week to begin letting assets roll of its balance sheet as bonds mature, instead of reinvesting the proceeds. This means that the balance sheet will begin to shrink in size and other market

Authored by Mark Glennon via WirePoints.com, “Net position” is the government accounting term used for a balance sheet snapshot. The chart shows net positions, in billions, for each of the last ten year ends, taken from the most recent CAFR, the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, for