Quantitative Easing<\/a>”\u00a0 being practiced by the EU & US?\u00a0 Giving Woolies the discount may make the P&L look better for the month, but when the discount is borrowed, all you are doing is loading the balance sheet up with more debt that needs to be repaid at some point, or you go bankrupt.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\nYou do not have to be a brain surgeon to understand that when the credit card is full, and the debt is bigger than the income, some radical spending surgery is required, partnered with an increase in the value extracted from every dollar that is still spent. Most\u00a0 consumers understand this, and manage it, those who do not, have their credit card taken away.<\/p>\n
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It seems to me that the geniuses making economy wide financial decisions around the world, but particularly in the US and Europe are making the same mistake many of my SME clients make. They are failing to distinguish between the short term, tactical decision making that can reshape a P&L in any given month, whilst […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57258965,45143,10585],"tags":[16995,4236,2267523,450773,56490],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fjXq-FZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strategyaudit.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strategyaudit.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strategyaudit.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategyaudit.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategyaudit.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategyaudit.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategyaudit.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions\/2605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strategyaudit.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategyaudit.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategyaudit.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}