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Re: Missing: $496.5 Billion in Corporate Cash 

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Liberals are like a "Slinky". Totally useless, but somehow ya can't help but smile when you see one tumble down a flight of stairs!


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Missing: $496.5 Billion in Corporate Cash
By: capt_nemo in ROUND
Sun, 10 Jun 12 7:27 PM 		Msg. 41872 of 45646

You may have missed this fascinating Real Time Economics article (Corporations Not Hoarding Cash) buried at 5am Saturday morning in the WSJ, but here it is:

In the Federal Reserve quarterly “Z1 flow of funds” report released late this past week, there was a slight discrepancy in the amount of corporate cash in Q1.

It was “up to” $1.74 trillion dollars.

And by up to, I mean down from $2.23 trillion dollars.

Did this money actually go missing? From the Fed report, its not clear whether or not this based on a significant accounting revision from recent quarters — meaning it never was really there in the first place. Alternatively, the money actually was pent, and corporate America added an additional half a trillion dollars in economic activity.

I suspect its the former . . .

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Whoops! Where did I put that half trillion dollars?

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