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U.S. Money Supply Is Contracting for the First Time Since the Great Depression. Historically, This Is an Ominous Sign for Stocks.

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While there have been multiple blips since 1973 where commercial bank credit has dipped by a negligible amount, there have only been four instances where commercial bank lending dropped by at least 1.5%: 1975, 2001, 2009-2010, and 2023. The growth-focused Nasdaq Composite was hit even harder during the declines in 2001 and 2009-2010.

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Beach Point Closes Second CLO Totaling $397.44m

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Beach Point’s second Collateralized Loan Obligation (CLO). Beach Point has been an active investor in leveraged loans since its inception in 2009. Beach Point CLO Management LLC, an affiliate of Beach Point Capital Management LP (collectively “Beach Point”), today announced the final closing of Sandstone Peak II Ltd.,

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Is It Too Late to Buy MicroStrategy Stock?

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The company even founded Alarm.com in 2000 before later selling it to a venture capital firm in 2009. Previously in 2022, when the company claimed to have 115,000 Bitcoin "unencumbered" by loans, Saylor acknowledged that if the price fell below $3,562, then MicroStrategy would run out of Bitcoin to use as collateral.

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This 1 All-Important Asset Will Soon Be on XRP. Here's Why It's a Huge Catalyst.

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For a potential user like a big international bank, that's an impediment, as such institutions are often in the business of trading Treasuries with each other and using them as collateral for their many financial activities. And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $328,354

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William Bernstein Helps Investors Improve

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Collateralized loan obligations from the Great Recession of 2007-2009, part of it is what causes the booms and busts. You get a bust, like we saw, for example, in the housing crisis in 2007-2009. William Bernstein: Exactly. Then all of a sudden bankers and investors get religion, they become a lot more conservative.

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C3.ai (AI) Q2 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

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And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $369,349 !* C3 AI and Microsoft will create joint webinar sales collateral to train the Microsoft and C3 AI sales forces on our joint offering solutions and value propositions.

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Private Credit, Meet “Higher for Longer”

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From March 2009 when the S&P 500 traded at 13x earnings to August 2020 when it peaked at 23x, a passive investor in the market earned 16% per annum. 8 Breaking down the total returns by source from December 2009 to December 2020 shows that 44% of the index’s average total return was from multiple expansion.