Examples
“The $53 trillion in liabilities is like a mortgage balance: That's what it would cost to pay off the debt now.”
“Ironically, Jane Norton’s candidacy probably hurts this decision’s effectiveness, as one of her main liabilities is her tie to Referendum C & D.”
“More than half of states considered legislation to try to rein in long-term liabilities such as employee pensions and benefits.”
The Wall Street Journal: Higher Taxes Yield to Budget Cuts in States
“These people want to be around the wealthy because they lost everything having over 900,000 in liabilities and the Winery closing.”
“The deal was attractive to pension funds and life-insurance companies that need to match their asset portfolios to long-term liabilities, especially because there aren't many compelling long-term deals for them in today's yield-starved environment.”
“As I argued in a previous GLF blog, banks and other institutions relied largely on "rolling over" short-term liabilities often, overnight.”
“And, as Deutsche Bundesbank board member Alexander Dombret pointed out in a speech Wednesday, this is "a non-negligible but small part of European banks' short-term liabilities" and easily covered by central bank facilities—both the ECB's own operations, and its swap facility with the Fed, which allows it to offer dollar liquidity to European banks that can't get it from the market.”
The Wall Street Journal: Time for Concern—Not for Panic—Over EU Banks
“Specifically, investors were asked to consider GM's strengthened balance sheet after bankruptcy stripped out over $80 billion in liabilities, GM's market-leading presence in China, and steps the new management team were taking to reverse losses in its struggling European division, Opel, after deciding to keep the unit in late 2009.”
The Huffington Post: White House Calling The Shots On GM IPO: Reuters
“He also said that Detroit has total long-term liabilities estimated at more than $12 billion, that City officials have not filed an adequate or approved deficit elimination plan, and that Detroit's general fund deficit is likely to increase to $196 million for 2011.”
The Huffington Post: Fred Leeb: Detroit's Old Games Are Over
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘liabilities’.
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BUDG - general terms
Budgetese - not a sexy topic but a very comprehensive list of words and collocations used in EU circles. Budgeting experts please comment and expand.
heading, across-the-board ..., emergency reserve, frontload, mopping-up, performance reserve, positive margin, negative margin, public finances, structural operat..., administrative ex..., management of EU ... and 657 more...
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CONT - general terms
additionality, audit trail, accounting standards, auditing standards, general audit obj..., a posteriori audit, a priori audit, above board, acceptable error ..., access rights, accountability, accountable entities and 1283 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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Tease Ideas
A play of words with the sound of "tees" in them... for use with T-Shirts,
profanities, vulgarities, atrocities, indecentees, immoralities, dirtees, immodesties, improprieties, impurities, lewditees, lubricities, offensitees and 72 more...
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