A large number of US companies are relying on accounting gimmicks to strip out various costs in order to make reported profits appear to be better (or losses less small) than actually is the case. Once again the biggest adjustment [...]
- Global| Feb 21 2020
"Deja Vu": Companies Don't Account For All Costs To Make Financial Results Appear Better
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- Global| Feb 12 2020
Fed's Price Targeting Regime: Suggested Changes Fail to Fix the #1 Flaw--The Price Gauge
Price targeting has failed as a monetary policy experiment, forcing policymakers to now consider a new process to achieve its price stability mandate. Policymakers are considering shifting to an "average" inflation rate over a span of [...]
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- Global| Feb 07 2020
Roadmap For 2020 Profits Is Filled With Potholes
Analysts and investors have been betting on a rebound in operating profits for 2020, even though profits are running up against a powerful (negative) trend in the annals of business cycles. New events on the international side of [...]
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- Global| Feb 03 2020
Greatest Economic Performance Ever? I Report, You Decide
The charts below show the behavior of some important measures of economic performance. Generally, the time period shown in the charts starts in the early 1950s and runs through the end of 2019. In some cases, the data are not [...]
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