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Borrowing increases risk in any business: you can’t go bankrupt if you have no debt.
To acknowledge the truth would have meant admitting that for years they had overlooked the build-up of an unsustainable construction boom that now threatens to bankrupt the entire country.
Millennium Development MilesPARIS – The global economic crisis has claimed many victims – unemployed workers, underwater homeowners, and bankrupt pensioners – but nowhere have the repercussions been as devastating as in the developing world.
Defunct and, frankly, bankrupt, that policy is nevertheless remembered fondly by many in Russia's foreign policy elite.
Similarly, the French government decided to bail out Alstom--a company that developed a number of high-tech products, including the TGV, the French fast train--before ending up bankrupt.
Just this week, the technically bankrupt Citigroup’s senior executives were about to buy a new $50 million luxury French jet for themselves, until the White House stopped it.
Despite this, Gazprom’s holding company appears to be rolling in cash while its production subsidiaries mostly appear bankrupt and never pay their taxes in full.
Regardless of Trump’s approval, investors are likely to reject a pipeline that would probably go bankrupt well before the planned horizon for its use.
The following year, he wrote a seminal essay, “The Power of the Powerless,” in which he described Czechoslovakia’s post-1968 “normalization” regime as a morally bankrupt system based on all-pervasive lying.
Often, debtor countries are squeezed so hard for payment that they are bankrupt again after a few years.
When US housing prices fell, some of these players should have gone bankrupt.
The company consists of many different parts, some profitable, others bankrupt: the obvious thing to do is to break it up.
Most underperforming ethanol companies went bankrupt or were taken over by entrepreneurs who had successful track records in running efficient operations.
Larger firms – even those with large debt problems – can refinance their excessive liabilities in court or out of court; but an unprecedented number of small businesses are going bankrupt.
Since Tsipras’s election in January, German officials have barely been able to contain their fury that a left-wing upstart government of a tiny, bankrupt country would dare to challenge one of the world’s great economies.
When Florida’s state government goes bankrupt, Florida’s banks continue to operate normally, because they are under federal rather than state jurisdiction.
The bottom line is that Europeans should worry and talk less about the Euro exchange rate, and spend the time they save trying to address their real problems: low productivity, market rigidities, fiscal polices constrained by the Stability Pact, and bankrupt pension systems.
Today, even formerly bankrupt governments from Korea to Russia to Mexico are awash in dollars.
The US would sooner rather than later bankrupt itself in a classic case of “imperial overreach.”
What exactly did investors expect when they purchased bonds in companies with names like “Limitless World,” one of Dubai World’s bankrupt real-estate subsidiaries?
So it boggles many non-Americans’ minds that so many in that great nation still do not wake up to the reality that four more years of Republican rule will further degrade and bankrupt the country.
In extreme cases, as in Ireland (one hopes not in Spain), the need to save the banking system can bankrupt an entire country.
As the late-coming speculators go bankrupt, the share of non-performing loans on banks’ balance sheets rises, forcing banks to reduce credit further.
It takes only a 10% decline in banks’ asset values to bankrupt the banking system.
A second, perhaps more important, cause for optimism is the fact that Colombians are more aware than ever that their political institutions are morally bankrupt.
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall we have found analysis made by the experts of the state security police and the state security ministry of the former German Democratic Republic which demonstrate that the GDR was bankrupt, but that this information was treated as the ultimate state secret (also described was what could be done to fool the world about that fact).
The trouble began at the end of the Cold War, when the collapse of a bankrupt communist ideology was complacently interpreted as the triumph of the market.
When companies go bankrupt, a debt-equity swap is a fair and efficient solution.
Thus, the EMF would provide a framework for sovereign bankruptcy comparable to the procedures that exist in the US for bankrupt companies that qualify for restructuring.
Unlike the Bankruptcy Law, the administrative procedure has a different hierarchy of liquidation priorities: what a bankrupt SOE owes to its employees and the resettlement charges must be covered first and foremost by its total assets, including the enterprise’s collateral, in order to reduce dependence on local governmental budgets.
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