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In that case, there will also be a serious risk that some firms that sold protection will go bankrupt, triggering further losses for buyers of protection when their counterparties cannot pay.
But this eagerness to declare the American model bankrupt is dead wrong.
Even after Kia, South Korea's second largest automaker and the eighth largest chaebol, went bankrupt earlier this year because of overextended investments, Kim Young Sam's government balked at undertaking financial reforms to open and supervise the banking system.
By the early 1840’s, eight of the 26 US states then in existence (along with the territory of Florida) had gone bankrupt as a result, while several others teetered on the brink.
So why do international financial markets rate Venezuela as riskier than all its neighbors, save for bankrupt Argentina?
The degree to which this was true became apparent in November 2010, when it emerged that essentially the entire Irish banking system, which had received a clean bill of health in June, was bankrupt.
At a meeting in Beijing, after telling me that China would not allow Pakistan to go bankrupt under my watch, Zhu ordered $500 million to be placed immediately in Pakistan’s account with the Federal Reserve Bank in New York.
But boosting the share of income that goes to the household sector could be hugely disruptive, as it could bankrupt a large number of SOEs, export-oriented firms, and provincial governments, all of which are politically powerful.
If a crash occurs and those countries leave the euro, their national central banks are likely to go bankrupt because much of their debt is denominated in euro, whereas their claims against the respective states and the banks will be converted to the new depreciating currency.
No good businessperson would hope their best customers go bankrupt.
Some states (Iceland and Hungary) are clearly bankrupt.
The taxpayer is not called upon, even in extreme cases, and states can go bankrupt.
China must exercise the foresight needed to begin paying this debt now, when it is manageable, rather than allowing it to accumulate and, ultimately, threaten to bankrupt us all.
The rule_of_thumb in high technology has been that the market leader makes a fortune, the first_runner_up breaks even, and everyone else goes bankrupt.
Obama campaigned on the goals that everyone should have health insurance, that high medical costs should not bankrupt anyone, and that increased efficiency in the production and delivery of care should slow the overall growth of health-care costs.
Without enough dollars flowing in from transit fees for Russia’s oil and gas exports to Western Europe, the country was bankrupt.
The Dodd-Frank legislation specifies that all banks – of any size – should be able to go bankrupt without causing massive disruption.
But the current reality is that no megabank could go bankrupt without causing another “Lehman moment” – that is, the kind of global panic that resulted in the days after Lehman Brothers failed in September 2008.
Six months later, it went bankrupt, wiping out many bondholders’ assets along the way.
Moreover, the Japanese government, while rejecting a further appeal from Ishihara to provide land on the isles to the Tokyo municipality, is, however, raising money to purchase some of the islands from their supposedly bankrupt Japanese owner.
The fact that investment bankers did not go bankrupt last December and are profiting immensely this year is a side issue.
Today, there is a higher level of bankruptcy in the United States than in the European Union, and it is easier for bankrupt Americans to embark on new ventures.
But, in a way, the Russian soldiers there are already hostages – not least to the Kremlin’s bankrupt foreign policy.
As problems spread throughout the financial system, the US authorities decided that some banks and other financial companies were so large relative to the economy that they were “systemically important” and could not be allowed to go bankrupt.
The first section of the legislation, Title I, stipulates that all firms must be able to go bankrupt without causing large-scale damage to the broader financial system or the real economy.
The bad news is that there has been almost no progress in terms of ensuring that large financial firms actually can go bankrupt.
The power of the KGB was simply replaced by the power of corrupt private oligarchs and an even more morally bankrupt state apparatus.
In short, they seek to establish an iron "poriadok" (order), a magic, soothing, nostalgic notion in today's bankrupt and chaotic Russia.
Ironically, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), the bankrupt incumbent energy provider, has been effective primarily in building its own competition.
With an economy falling apart and a bankrupt financial sector, radical reforms were needed.
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