monetary expansion, without change of direction

M2 money supply refers to the total amount of money available in an economy, including cash, checking deposits, and easily convertible near money. As of April 2025, the M2 money supply in the United States was approximately $21.86 trillion. Using tradingview, I could see how a high level view of the change in this chart. … Read more

Beyond Budgeting

I have found this presentation really interesting: Some screenshots that I found interesting Solve the budget conflict: separate the purposes Managing cost, change of mindset is required Tools for cost Management

The Death and Birth of Technological Revolutions

This is a nice article about economic cycles that is good for reminding me how these cycles work: Many of the climatic patterns of Wardley Mapping come from the economic world, and here some of them are explained from a different perspective. Economy has cycles: Evolution has different stages

Micro-payments impact in Manufacturing

On the manufacturing research group I’m engaged we are looking for 3 things: One of the ideas that came to me is the impact of the micro-payments in consumer environments and how this phenomenon that started in Internet is jumping into the physical world. Sorry but I only have questions: Related to the manufacturing industry: … Read more

Making investment decisions on a map

In what parts of the organization should I invest? This is something that comes from common sense (the less common of the senses). And it is that the understanding of the business priorities, the purpose of the company, the context where you are in a given moment, etc. all that is going to be part … Read more

Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)

The FASB Accounting Standards Codification is the source of authoritative generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) recognized by the FASB to be applied by nongovernmental entities. They provide updates from time to time about different topics. An example: Archer Daniels Midland I was reviewing this company and how the free cash flow turned negative in 2017. … Read more

Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB)

ICB is an industry classification taxonomy launched by Dow Jones and FTSE in 2005. The ICB uses a system of 10 industries, partitioned into 19 super-sectors, which are further divided into 41 sectors, which then contain 114 sub-sectors. In tradingview.com you can show these indicators. For instance 9500 technologies.  

US Balance sheet

This page contains a lot of information that you can consult about US economy: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttrends.htm The recent communications of the Federal Reserve announcing the use of 2.3T$ can be seen and compared with 2008 figures: There are many other charts and information you can see. My problem: I first have to increase my knowledge to … Read more