insolvent

• “My reading of most of the comments here is that stockholders in insolvent enterprises – i.e., holders of worthless assets – should expect to paid market value - i.e., nothing – if the government nationalizes the enterprise.”

  Matthew Yglesias » The Grain

• “What we appear to be doing is propping up insolvent banks, which remain insolvent, until the situation becomes sufficiently dire again that they need more taxpayer funds.”

  The Bailout and Nationalization

• “Tribune's exit from bankruptcy has been delayed in part by claims that investor Sam Zell 's $8.2 billion leveraged buyout of Tribune in 2007 was flawed and rendered the company insolvent from the start.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Tribune Set to Name Caretaker Managers

• “Germany's insistence that in the medium term insolvent countries should have their debts restructured.”

  The Economist: Correspondent's diary

• “DW-WORLD: Failed bond swap leaves Escada fashion label insolvent”

  Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE

• “The city must also prove to a federal bankruptcy judge that it is technically insolvent, which isn't clear cut in Harrisburg's case, legal experts say.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Capital Files for Bankruptcy

• “If this is indeed the way in which the stress tests play out in the end, then the Obama administration will have missed a golden opportunity to label insolvent banks as such, and thereby justify taking them over and breaking them up.”

  Wonk Room » How Does A Bank ‘Pass’ A Stress Test, Yet Still Require ‘Exceptional Assistance’?

• “Even if 1% of the derivatives pyramid loses counterparties because they have become insolvent, that is more than 10 trillion dollars of a black hole.”

  The Huffington Post: Derivatives Quadrillion Play: How Far Away Are We From A Second Financial Crisis?

• “What happens if/when Greenwich Council starts trading insolvent - insolvent, that is, unless it increases the Council Tax by some unreasonably stratospheric amount to make up the shortfall caused by the Council's own incompetence?”

  It's only £400,000 after all!

• “In a statement, he said, "We cannot be classified as insolvent when we have a healthy cash-flow, and we can pay for our crude and product importation obligations.”

  AllAfrica News: Latest

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