In Troubled Times

Still, we can trust in God to hear our prayers and give us the graces we need in troubled times if we ask Him sincerely and with perseverance. Amends must be made for them. Just as He suffered punishment for our sins on the cross for our salvation, our Lord asks us, in effect, to share in the work of our redemption by uniting our sufferings with His. Our Lord did indeed ask us in the Gospels to take up our crosses and follow Him. Jesus wants us to share our worries and troubled times with Him in prayer, to offer them up to Him for the good of our souls.

Thus, our faith teaches us not to consider our sufferings to be meaningless. His will for us, His love for us, and how we reflect that love in how we treat each other. Remember, however that God is not some impersonal force immune to pain. After all, Good Friday was followed by Easter Sunday! In the Garden of Gethsemane, our Lord gave us a moving example as depicted in this painting above how we can offer up our anxieties to God while trusting in His will. In prayer we can ask God to give us that kind of grace and strength to trust that He indeed will bring us out of the valley of the shadow of death, stronger and in better shape to reflect His glory and assure our place in Heaven with Him than we were before.

John called Jesus in his Gospel John 1: If relief is not in sight, ask Him for the graces you need to endure in these troubled times. Try it free for 30 days. Psalm 30 Psalm A psalm of David. Essentials Library - Slightly Imperfect Retail: Enrich your faith and grow in spiritual maturity with the incredible Bible study and devotional books listed below. Try it for 30 days FREE. Cancel at any time. You must be logged in to view your newly purchased content. Please log in below or if you don't have an account, creating one is easy and only takes a few moments.

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Johannesburg established itself as global financial centre with numerous local, colonial and international banks operating inside the South African Republic, with many of their managers and employees functioning as Johannesburg Stock Exchange JSE members. Despite the positive developments in Johannesburg, most of the marketing for deep-level South African securities was done in London. Using an extensive network of joint-stock banks and clearing houses, the London financial market was also able to promote investments in London-listed mining securities on the European continent.

London might have hosted the most capitalised mining market of the 19th century, but it was far from being the London might have hosted the most capitalised mining market of the 19th century, but it was far from being the only one available to a growing pool of international speculators. Although the intention here is not to solve the mystery around why massive portfolios of South African mining stocks were suddenly sold in Paris in the famous Krach of ,5 the paper will expose how personal and institutional connections stemming from the JSE, turned France into the centre of attention for all South African gold mining stakeholders.

Since Bernanke demonstrated that bank failures had real impacts on economic activity during the s, there has been general recognition that disruptions in credit channels contributed to the deflationary forces that were at work during the Great Depression.

This paper analyzes the source and impacts of credit disruptions within the mortgage market during the severe housing crisis that accompanied the Depression. This constitutes a supply-side channel for the reduced number of new loans, different to the demand factors that also influenced lending during this period. A one standard deviation in the REO share variable caused a decrease of 4. Between and the rapid rise in mean REO share of assets contributed to over 80 percent of the reduction in the mean value of new loans as a percentage of assets. The financial crisis of of came as a complete surprise to most and brought about widespread condemnation of Wall Street and the lack of regulatory oversight of the financial system: How could financial markets and institutions fail so dramatically?

Many demanded governments to take action to stave off the next crisis.

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This recent episode echoes crises that came before; the Great Depression, and the slew of regulations and institutions created in response, being the foremost example where the pattern of financial crisis, public outcry, and regulatory response can be observed e. For Germany, the Hyperination in represents another critical episode from a similar magnitude. Compared to January , prices had increased by more than trillion percent by December of the same year shaking the foundation of the German economy Bresciani-Turroni, Most empirical research on the determinants of capital structures is conducted by means of Most empirical research on the determinants of capital structures is conducted by means of either cross-sectional, time series or panel data covering the period starting from e.

Consecutive to the irrelevance theorem of Modigliani and Miller , four main theories have evolved taking into account market imperfections. Whereas the pecking order theory argues that, due to their relative costs, retained earnings are preferred over debt and newly issued equity for refinancing purposes Myers, , the trade-off theory considers capital structures to be determined by the relative benefits tax savings Kraus and Litzenberger, , increased monitoring Jensen and Meckling, , added discipline to the management Jensen, and costs costs of financial distress Scott, , the debt overhang problem Myers, of debt.

Apart from that, some articles claim additional validity for the market timing as well as the and managerial entrenchment theory.

On the contrary, only a few studies on the determinants of corporate capital structures exist taking into account data from earlier periods. Yet, as the first half of the 20th century is characterized by comparably much more extreme economic conditions, investigating corporate capital structure decisions in this period potentially can add knowledge to the current state of research. As illustrated in Figure 1 in the Appendix, real GDP per capita, used as proxy for economic stability, was more volatile during these years in post-war Germany in comparison to the US as well as to later decades.

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Whereas existing studies covering this period are focused on the US market e. Firm level data will be examined to assess whether, and if so, which one of the four outlined theories can be supported by historical data. Moreover, it will be revealed if the findings by Graham et al. The dataset fundamental to the intended analysis is being created at this point in time.

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Alongside detailed balance sheet and profit and loss data, it, among others, includes information on management and supervisory board members of all joint-stock companies in Germany for the period from to Hard copies of the annually published Handbuch der deutschen Aktiengesellschaften totalling to more than , single pages serve as data basis. After the hard copies are electronically copied and digital images of each page are created, the image quality has to be improved to enable better data extraction results in subsequent steps.

Based on the usage of uncommon font types in the Handbuch der deutschen Aktiengesellschaften, the software has to be manually trained to adapt to font type-specific characteristics. This is one type of machine learning Mohri et al. Once the text is digitalized, the data has to be structured and filtered. Various Python libraries are used to extract only the data needed. Furthermore, to secure a high data quality, the single time series are automatically checked for outliers.

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Based on first results,an overall recognition rate of 99 percent is feasible. Such strategies, leading to large-scale conglomerates in Germany, were enabled by the German central bank, which essentially offered large industrials nearly unlimited access to new debt Taylor, On the other hand, accounting for this peculiarity, the proposed project additionally sheds light on potential long-term effects on capital structures of the described monetary policies.