Sentences with phrase «to bail out the banks»

The governments bailed out the banks in September 2008, and again in various increments through the Spring of 2009.

The govt needs to answer that, and it's yet another instance of the burden of bailing out the banks falling on women.

Even if bailing out the banks in order to preserve financial systemic integrity was needed, there were other ways to do it, such as being lender of last resort at a penalty rate, or giving vouchers good to reduce debts to every household in America.

Most recently, limits to banking executives» pay were imposed by the Treasury on bailed out banks after the 2008 financial crisis.

Just to add that a train wreck at UBS would be the responsibility of the Swiss, not the Americans — have the Swiss ever bailed out a bank with public funds before?

Restrain wage / price inflation while bailing out banks and broker - dealers, Fannie, Freddie, etc..

@kitty This loan is a mirage just like California real estate, hopefully we don't bail out the bank after this guy defaults on his loan.

Canada's government, he asserts, did bail out our banks when the crisis hit — creating a program to move tens of billions of dollars in assets off their balance sheets.

Some banks weren't able to lend for a while because of TARP,» Geshwiler says, referring to the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the federal government's program for bailing out banks hit hard in the financial crisis.

Sir Philip Hampton to exchange similar roles from bailed out bank to embattled pharmaceutical company at the end of 2015

The global bond market has ballooned more than 40 percent to $ 100 trillion as governments bailed out the banking industry and plunging tax receipts deepened deficits.

In 2008, the Government bailed out the banks who had issued subprime mortgages and related derivatives, but the Taxpayer never signed up for the multi-trillion dollar bailout, which largely transferred wealth from the middle class taxpayer to the Too Big To Fail bank executives.

If it sold 1 million citizenships over the next three years at this price, it would be able to pay off all its debts, bail out its banks properly, allow politicians and tycoons to syphon off $ 100 billion for personal gain, and still have some cash left to buy some German tanks and frigates.

So far, the great increase in recent government debt has been to bail out the banking sector, not to help the «real» economy recover.

Treasury Secretary Geithner is reported to be pressuring the Europeans to bail out the banks because Goldman Sachs and others American banks have gambled that Greece and other countries can pay, and written default insurance.

To help bail out the banks, Japan's government urged them to engage in what has become known as the «carry trade»: lending freely created yen credits to foreign financial institutions at remarkably low rates, for these borrowers to convert into other currencies to buy bonds or other assets yielding a higher rate.

Like bailing out a bank, doing so would require liquidity, capital and more accountable management.

In 2008, banks persuaded governments to «solve» the debt problem by taking bad bank debt onto the public balance sheet and then bailing out the banks.

There was in addition the cost of bailing out banks such as Northern Rock, RBS and HBOS.

The mobilisation of resources [to bail out the banks] was unprecedented; indeed the transfer of assets is the greatest redistribution from poor to rich since the Norman Conquest, when the common and freehold lands of England were transferred to the ownership of William the Conqueror.

In the financial crisis of 2008/2009, many countries bailed out their banks.

The government spent # 85.5 bn last year bailing out the banks and propping up the economy.

Pick a leader who will not only bail out banks and airlines, but also families from losing their homes — or jobs due to their companies moving to other countries.

Implementation of the Taxpayer Protection and Bank Recapitalization regime that allows a failing bank to be restructured by converting its debt into common stock instead of having taxpayers bail it out

Dr. John Hussman reports that the money simply went to bailing out bank bondholders.

You could end up with a lot of nations in default, and shut out of the bond markets (the PIIGS), while the rest do seemingly fine, as they quietly bail out their banks.

Instead of saving the planet, they're spending hundreds of billions bailing out the banks.

Wall Street banks, and the U.S. government (that has time and again bailed out these banks), that's who.

This trend increased at a more rapid rate since the 2008 global financial crisis with major governments of the world resorting to printing huge sums of money to pay national debts and also bail out banks.

Let each EU nation rather take a step back and ask, «What is cheaper in the long - run, bailing out Greece, or bailing out my banks with Greece exposure?»

Taxpayers got a terrible deal from bailing out the banks and they would get another bad one for bailing out politicians.

In its wake, the federal government bailed out banks and automakers, investors lost confidence in the markets, and many questioned the viability of the financial system.

Central banks are still adding to liquidity, perhaps to bail out banks who have made bad loans to parties on the wrong side of securities trades.

Or maybe you're referring to the prudence of bailing out banks without curbing their irresponsible behaviour which created the very economic crisis which precisely those not responsible for it are expected to pay for.

The sums of money squandered on bailing out banks are difficult to grasp.

The U.S. government insisted that it wouldn't bail out the banks, but no one believed it, so outfits such as Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. carried on as if they had little to lose.

Rather than scaling back the U.S. economy's over-indebtedness, for instance, the Treasury and Federal Reserve have bailed out the banks to save them from taking a loss on debt write - downs.

With the financial system imploding in 2008, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke implored Congress to authorize $ 700 billion to bail out the banks or risk a total meltdown.

The debt deal, which came on Friday after about 19 similar summits since the start of the debt crisis (with few results), called for countries that use the euro to allows two European bailout funds to aid European banks directly, rather than make loans to governments to bail out the banks.

After all, we were told at the time that if taxpayers didn't open their wallets and bail out the banks, we could face a complete meltdown of the global financial system and an economic fate rivaling the Great -LSB-...]

-- a story about a controversial plan to bail out its banks.

The real purpose of this regulatory rewrite is to make sure that the government can bail out the banks» bondholders and even bail out the stockholders as well as the banks themselves.

In an attempt to prevent an unpleasant revisit to the Stone Age, global governments have bailed out banks and the private sector.

We would been a lot better of, if instead we decided to give a $ 100,000 dividend to every income tax payer instead of bailing out the banks.

Instead, it looks like the government will bail out the banks.