Sentences with phrase «of toxic assets»

Thai turbine - terrorists, RATCH have also reacted with crazed panic; and have put everything up for grabs — clearly hoping to get out of a brewing financial collapse by way of the «greater fool theory ``, that vendors of toxic assets rely on when they're looking to ditch them in a hurry.

[64] The Independent described the entity sold as the «detoxified arm» of the bank, while saying the taxpayers retained «responsibility for # 20bn of toxic assets such as bad debts and closed mortgages.»

Wall St villains now saviours Wall Street fund managers - the very people blamed for the sub prime crisis that sparked the global economic meltdown - will be given an almost free ride to buy $ US1 trillion worth of toxic assets crippling the financial system.

Not exact matches

Mr. Paulson added that the healthy parts of AIG had been «infected» by the «toxic assets.»

The run was on wholesale money - that is, on repo and on unsecured commercial paper that had been issued in the hundreds of billions by financial institutions loaded down with securitized toxic garbage, including a lot of in - process inventory, on the asset side of their balance sheets.

Consider here what motivated the banks in the first place: a great amount of their assets turned out to be worthless (the famous «toxic» assets) when the bust hit in 2008, and they found it difficult to maintain minimum capital ratios; their deposit liabilities of course remained the same, and initially the level of non-borrowed bank reserves went deeply into negative territory (this is to say, they were forced to borrow directly from the Fed's discount window during this time).

One of the signal results of toxic - stress exposure is a hyperactive fight - or - flight mechanism, which can be a valuable asset in a violent home or neighborhood but is much less helpful during a seventh - grade history lesson.

So you are torn between wanting to draw a line in the sand, sever all connection with your toxic mate and divorce, which means expense and dividing up the assets which for the vast majority of people means having to settle for a lower standard of accommodation, much lower.

Direct British bank exposure to Greece is only # 10bn, though of course in our interconnected world of toxic financial instruments ostensibly trading as assets who can say what the real risk is?

Just think back a few decades — the Inner Harbor was an eyesore to our city and region, a toxic waste site that squandered one of our city's most magnificent natural assets.

«We wanted to look at the bacterial resistance to toxic waste, which would be an important asset within the context of heavily polluted mines.

Risk that the Feds should care about is the toxic mix of illiquid assets funded by liquid liabilities; long liability structures r safe $ $

This is off - topic now, but I guess Chase is doing what Congress was too stupid to think of doing when passing the $ 700 billion bailout that the Bush administration said was needed desperately and immediately — get better valuation of the toxic derivative securities (which these credit card receivables are in too) by getting as much of the underlying assets paid off and out of the pool as possible.

I would add in other asset classes as well: credit default, emerging markets, junk bonds, low - quality stocks, the toxic waste of Asset - and Mortgage - backed securities, and private eqasset classes as well: credit default, emerging markets, junk bonds, low - quality stocks, the toxic waste of Asset - and Mortgage - backed securities, and private eqAsset - and Mortgage - backed securities, and private equity.

Even if the plan to remove toxic assets from bank balance sheets is successful (however «success» might be defined), the rate of foreclosure will be unaffected, because no change in the payment obligations of homeowners will result.

3) Allow «toxic asset» purchases using public funds only to the extent that the entire issuance of various securitized mortgage pools can be purchased «all or none» at a moderate percentage of face value.

Remember that the «toxic assets» held by banks represent pools of mortgages that have been cut up into dozens of individual pieces; the higher grade pieces having first claim to payments made on the underlying mortgages, and the lower grade pieces having claims to less likely payments.

By dramatically inflating the nominal prices of various «assets», including those that are now called «toxic assets», many of which were substantially created out of thin air, such as various derivatives, the banks, various financial institutions, and other holders of these assets, have essentially laid claims to a much larger proportion of the existing real wealth.

He was in favor of the UK toxic asset swap scheme — even though the pricing was ridiculous.

Owners of these derivatives were suddenly bleeding money, and stuck with toxic assets no one would touch.

He is a failed idiot and the sooner that he and Clegg leave office the sooner the country can begin to recover from toxic toff supremacy culture, and corporate raiding of our NHS and nationally owned natural assets.

The original proposal was that the federal government would spend many hundreds of billions of dollars buying up so - called «toxic» assets (tied to the collapsing real estate market) from financial institutions, so that they could shore up their balance sheets and prevent world credit markets from freezing up.

«But I hope this report will mean that regulators also take note, because much of the embedded risk from these potentially toxic carbon assets is not openly recognized through current reporting requirements.»

TARP was supposed to be a circuit breaker by buying up the toxic assets easing reserve and insurance requirements but so far not a dime of TARP money has been used to buy up those toxic assets it was billed as being for.

I have found a remarkable similarity between the behaviours of the folks who brought us the troubled (toxic) assets and of the people who practise unsafe sex.

FATCA makes U.S. citizens living and working abroad toxic assets in the eyes of both financial institutions and employers;

Coordinated, precise deployment of these comprehensive resources helps minimize the consequences — including employee injury or toxic tort claims by exposed persons, and difficulty in recovering insurance assets.

We look at an overview of the current financial crisis and the reasons for it — Toxic assets and why the banks lent so much to people with so little — The Role of The Bank of England and whether reduction in interest rates is working — The possibility of Deflation — Short selling of bank shares — The World shedding 70,000 + jobs a day — Madoff — How long the recession is likely to last.

Associates are starting to look like the equivalent of subprime mortgages for law firms — toxic assets they want moved off their books.

And in the wake of the government's announcement that TARP money won't be used to buy toxic commercial real estate backed assets, spreads on the CMBX - NA - AJ 5 index shot up to 1,156 basis points on Nov. 13, while spreads on the CMBX - NA - AA - 5 index went up to 2,051 basis points.