Sentences with phrase «financial time bomb»

If it has three letters, apparently it must be a financial time bomb.

WASHINGTON — The sprawling agreement to boost government spending reached by Republicans and Democrats this month quietly included a step toward defusing what could be a financial time bomb for 1.5 million retirees and hundreds of companies in the industrial Midwest and the South.

The bubble was a combination of (a) teaser rates on option ARMs which were like financial time bombs, (b) liar loans in which the rules of good mortgage underwriting (20 % down, 28/36 ratios) went out the window, (C) people at rating agencies who decided that if one pools enough junk loans into one bond, it's magically AAA, and (D) Credit default swaps which encouraged these bad loans, and when they collapsed a number of people walked away with billions of dollars.

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And yet options can be a time bomb, inflicting damage in future years not only on a company's financial underpinnings but also on the fragile sense of trust between leaders and the led.

Sam Poser, an analyst with Susquehanna Financial Group, raised concerns Tuesday about continued high levels of inventory, which he said in a report «appear out of control» and «looks like a ticking time bomb to us.»

Circling back to the mall / REIT ticking time - bomb, while the Fed can keep the stock market propped up as means of preventing an immediate nuclear melt - down in U.S. pensions (all of which are substantially «maxed - out» in their mandated equities allocation), the collapse of commercial mortgage - back securities (CMBS) will have the affect of launching a nuclear sub-missile directly into the side of the U.S. financial system.

As I have commented on several times previously, Deutsche Bank's balance sheet is a ticking financial nuclear time bomb.

Student debt is a ticking time bomb that threatens to derail many young adults» financial futures.

The Vatican is denouncing offshore tax havens and financial instruments such as derivatives and credit default swaps as gravely immoral and unjust, calling them «ticking time bombs» that hurt the world's poor the most.

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The Guardian called it an «economic time bomb» that will «undermine the global financial system.»