The country has one of the highest small-business bankruptcy rates in the region.
Have they saved a small country from bankruptcy and applied a Band-Aid to yet another crisis or have they sent a dangerous message to savers elsewhere?
Guess what happens when the small business owner enters bankruptcy.
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Indeed, untying insurance from employment would give entrepreneurs the ability to take risks without the threat of medical bankruptcy and small businesses could compete with larger firms better since they would not need to provide expensive medical benefits to employees, something larger firms can do much more easily than their smaller counterparts.
But by having a little piece of many you lower your risk of losing all your money at the near certainty of taking some small loss on one or other bankruptcy.
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The Cypriot president said if he hadn't accepted the tax on bank deposits, the European Central Bank would have stopped providing emergency funds to the country's top two lenders which would have led to the collapse of the banking system, the bankruptcy of thousands of small businesses, massive job losses, and ultimately the country's exit from the euro.
The meat and potatoes of this bond recommendation are that the new slimmed down, post-bankruptcy CIT is lending to small- and medium-sized businesses.
Plaintiff attorneys counter that bankruptcy trusts usually pay a small fraction of what their clients could win in a lawsuit and that it is almost impossible to determine exactly how a worker was exposed to asbestos.
The company hasn't made a formal bankruptcy filing, which is no small matter.
But all the stakeholders suffered during GM's bankruptcy, so this effect may be small.
BuyandHold Securities was sold out of bankruptcy court to Fahnestock Viner Holdings, a small Toronto-based financial outfit.
When Charter emerged from bankruptcy court, Allen hung on to a small equity stake in the company.
Still another major CCX shareholder was ShoreBank, a small Chicago bank that once teetered on the edge of bankruptcy due to failed subprime mortgage investments.
Small wonder that the country is on the verge of bankruptcy.
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There is a lucrative niche in collecting even small amounts from debtors in the window between when a bankruptcy proceeding is filed and when it is completed.
Many small businesses and individuals have been forced out of business and into bankruptcy by harsh collection policies.
The deal had already established its roots when buyout shop Oaktree Capital Management purchased the bonds of Classic Cable, which owned small rural cable systems in places like Arkansas and was heading for bankruptcy.
It's all small potatoes that won't do much to help the company stave off bankruptcy, according to the experts.
Certainly, the amounts of money involved in the specific frauds identified at Enron were small compared to the amount of shareholder value that was ultimately destroyed when it plunged into bankruptcy.
The good deed, along with a promise to share fuel-efficient small car technology, earned Fiat a 20 percent stake in Chrysler under a government-brokered bankruptcy reorganization.
Given the entanglement of international debts and loans, one or two small countries actually defaulting could well create another financial melt-down similar to what followed the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers.
The whole imbroglio is small potatoes for the Fertitta brothers, Frank and Lorenzo, who pulled their Station Casinos through bankruptcy and now control a large part of the lower-cost local gambling market in Las Vegas.
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Eventually, what small amount of cash that was left in the company dried up and Mackert took the company into bankruptcy.
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That testimony came about because the small law firm's founder, Thomas Ice, was searching for a way to help his bankruptcy clients.
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