Sentences with phrase «bail out of equities»

The idea is that you want to hold enough stocks to earn the returns you'll need to grow your nest egg over the long - term, but also enough in bonds to provide some downside protection so you don't bail out of equities in a severe downturn.

The idea is that you want to hold enough stocks to earn the returns you'll need to grow your nest egg over the long - term, but also enough in bonds to provide some downside protection so you don't bail out of equities in a severe downturn.

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At issue is whether Lehman's crisis was merely a temporary «liquidity problem,» that time would have cleaned up much like BP's oil spill in the Gulf; or, did the firm suffer a more deep - seated «balance sheet problem» (negative equity), as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims — a junk balance sheet, composed of assets that not only had no buyers at the time, but had no visible likelihood of recovering their market price even after the $ 13 trillion the Treasury and Federal Reserve have spent to bail out Wall Street.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

Be more responsible with your finances this year by committing to only spending what you can realistically afford, and not relying on an equity loan to bail you out of a financial crisis.

I have been bailed out by the returns of the equity market and my alpha.

If we bail out a firm, it should be painful, as it was for the GSEs and AIG, where most of the equity gets handed over to the government in exchange for a senior loan guarantee.

He has argued that failed banks should not be bailed out, Lehman's collapse was not a disaster, AIG should be declared bankrupt, that naked short selling is not a problem, that backdating isn't so bad, insider trading should be legal, many corporate CEOs are underpaid, global solutions are worse than local solutions, Warren Buffett is overrated, Michael Milken is a great American, the collapse of the hedge fund was not a scandal, hedge funds are over-regulated, education is overrated by the educated, bonuses at successful Wall Street's firms are deserved and possibly undersized, management buyouts are boons to the economy, Enron's management was victimized by an over-zealous prosecution, Sarbanes - Oxley should be repealed, corporate compliance culture is a disaster, shareholder democracy is overrated, hostile takeovers ought to be revived, the market is permanently moving away from public ownership of equity in corporations, private partnerships are on the rise, public ignorance is encouraged and manipulated by governments and corporations, experts overrate expertise, regulatory agencies are controlled by the businesses they supposedly regulate and Wall Street is much more fun than people give it credit for.

When Germany capitulates on how far it is willing to go to bail out its neighbors — when there's a credible TARP - like plan for European banks as well as a stabilization of LIBOR rates — equities will rocket skyward.

Their philosophy — to regard themselves as temporary custodians of long - term and enduring businesses rather than short - term investors who want to bail out when the price is right — is one than could fruitfully be assumed by more equity partners in law firms.

In 2008, though firm lawyers logged thousands of hours in hectic bail - out related work, especially in the last quarter, the firm's revenue was flat and average profits per equity partner fell 17 percent.

The insurer became a symbol of the U.S. financial crisis in 2008 when the government bailed out the company for $ 182 billion in exchange for an equity stake.