All posts are private by default users actually have to choose to make a post public.
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Mr. Moffat said he built the site to pressure Facebook to switch its account settings so that such updates are private by default and wouldn't be accessible to developers like himself.
Obama and the Republicans twist themselves into pretzels protecting private corporate bonds from default by commandeering private capital and debauching the currency through the Fed to make multi-trillion-dollar bailouts of financial institutions.
When it defaults via inflation, it forces private debtors to default along with it.
In turn, the country's departure from the eurozone would "result in widespread default on private sector as well as sovereign euro-denominated obligations, " the ratings agency said.
The simplest way to cope with default by private borrowers is to improve the inadequate domestic bankruptcy laws that still prevail in many emerging economies, something that is slowly under way.
The average probability that a private construction company would default in the next year was 3.79 percent for the 12-month period ended Dec. 31, compared with 5.73 percent for the year-earlier period.
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Generally speaking, that should be the default policy that private information and communications companies adopt when devising speech policies for their platforms.
Most obviously, exit and the subsequent default on its private as well as official debt would cost European banks, firms and taxpayers a lot of money (see article).
They artificially lower the interest rates and increase the size of credits as the risk of any future debt rescheduling or default is transferred from private commercial banks to Western taxpayers.
It is accused probably wrongly of hinting that access to this money would be easier if Ecuador were to default on interest payments to private bondholders.
Other plans agreed in July, to make private investors take a hit on any default by Greece on its debts, are also now seen as insufficient.
While the line between voluntary and compulsory becomes blurred in a situation like this, the public sector will have to secure commitment from banks and other private sector creditors in order to avoid default.
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Of course, Evernote has screwed with it, so now it won't default to keeping my pictures private (not so good for the clients, or my reputation) and the new layout hides the sharing feature in a stupid drop-down menu.
Argentina already holds the record for the largest debt default in history to private sector creditors when it abandoned efforts to meet its repayment commitments in the wake of the collapse of its currency peg at the turn of the year.
Risk aversion, fear of default and depleted bank capital have caused private borrowing rates to deviate sharply from policy rates.
The ratings agency said plans for the private sector to roll over debts could trigger a default under its ratings criteria.
Private investors are shying away from a place where default and devaluation seem imminent, giving the economy little chance of growing.
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Repeat the exercise for a large group of publicly traded corporations and you can get an overall default rating for a country's private sector or for one segment of the economy.
All these steps were aimed at reducing credit spreads on private loans and increasing the supply of private credit, currently constrained by fear of counterparty default, illiquidity and banks' depleted capital.
It avoids a technical default but it does impose pain on the private sector.
On the question of private sector involvement, attention has understandably focussed on the default issue, and whether it is credible to simply assert that this will apply to "Greece and Greece alone".
It reduces the chances of a sovereign default triggered by inability to meet payment demands through private sector.
For example, since September 2005, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has been leading a joint public-private initiative to improve arrangements for clearing and settling trades in credit default swaps and other OTC derivatives.
The money required to get private bondholders to take losses cannot be delayed if Greece is to avoid default.
While none of the bonds issued for the stadium project are in default, William Nortman, a former SEC lawyer who is now in private practice in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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