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‘Assets can be bad.’

[⟨det (plur asset.n)⟩ bad.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The Fed’ ’ can alleviate the problem by helping institutions finance these bad assets, “Kos said.
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Wont the US have to sell bonds to raise the money to buy the bad assets with, and thus compete with (much) more productive uses of capital?
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Next, we need confidence that the prices paid for bad assets are not going to be excessive, we need oversight that allows us to be confident this isn’t another typical? reward and punish with taxpayer dollars? operation; and finally, we need to demand warrants, the tool that could make this something that turns the transactions, for a change, to the advantage of the taxpayer.
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S surprise move to jettison bad assets for less than a quarter on the dollar and to.
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To overcome the actual financial crisis US authorities are working on a general rescue initiave, and Government asked Congress for $ 700 Billion, raising Federal debt limit from $ 10,6 Trillion to $ 11,3 Trillion (US economy produces $ 14 Trillion worth of goods and services a year), planning to create a new government agency to recapitalize financial institutions removing bad illiquid assets off their balance sheets by taking over troubled mortgage assets and buying mortgage backed securities at discounted prices for the next two years against cash and capital notes, giving them some exposure to future losses and possibly gains on assets, to be sold as soon as markets stabilize at a best possible price to investors, increasing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, now government owned, also their purchase of mortgage backed debt and could loosen lending standards to help more home buyers qualify for a loan within a safe and sound business strategy.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

So, week after grueling week, the Fed and the ECB keep adding another $ 50 to $ 100 billion of bad assets to their balance sheets, as? collateral? and making? temporary? loans they keep having to roll over and extend the repayment on.
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House Republicans, for example, have asked that any profits generated by the sale of the bad assets be used to reduce the budget deficit and not for any other purpose.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

U.S. stock futures pointed Friday to a second straight rally after, on the heels of a planned move to buy up bad assets from financials, the Securities and Exchange Commission imposed a temporary ban on short sales of 799 financial institutions.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Even in cases where bad assets were purchased – as in Chile – dividends were suspended and all profits and recoveries had to be used to repurchase the bad assets.
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Added: September 29, 2008 The risk has been shifted to the tax payers on these bad assets and if they don’t sell for enough then what?
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They would have to close or merge or stop borrowing and lending or unload these bad assets.
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The fact that you think they are worth more than anyone will buy them for is what makes them bad assets.
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Sell Lehman to a bank or consortia of banks, which can then do what Lehman itself failed to do over the past 7 months: keep the good parts and ditch the bad assets at pennies on the dollar.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Use the form below to submit bad assets you’d like the government to take off your hands.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

UBS AG, one of the hardest hit banks in the subprime mortgage crisis, said Tuesday that it lost 358 Swiss francs ($ 331 million) in the second quarter as it took another $ 5.1 billion hit in write – downs on bad assets.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The Treasury will be required to provide details of its purchases of bad assets within two days of the transaction.
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“Nobody wants to be left out of Treasury’s proposal to buy up bad assets of financial institutions.”
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There is absolutely no need for the taxpayer to subsidize banks so they can stay independent, provided no barriers are erected to prevent new entrants into bank or specific banking markets…. we need to get ruthless investors inside troubled banks to get these banks and their bad assets cleaned up and / or sold.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Meanwhile, the man who should have been Obama’s running mate, Senator Jim Webb of Virginia, has written to Dodd (PDF), also to urge that any legislation granting the federal government the authority to purchase $ 700 billion in bad assets include a strengthened regulatory structure to prevent future market instability, and a cap on executive compensation in companies being rescued by the American taxpayer.
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Queried on 2013-05-21.