Compared to Medicare, Social Security is actually in reasonably good shape, and with some relatively small adjustments, you can have that solvent for a long time.

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Legislation significantly increased the public funds available for bank restructuring, and established a general framework for recapitalizing weak but solvent banks, as well as for dealing with insolvent banks through temporary nationalizations and bridge banks.

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Contrary to popular opinion, the failure of one or many banks in 2008 would not have led to a collapse in credit for solvent companies.

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The coating for the Eden Foods canned products is a solvent-based technology that is commonly used in 3-part cans for mild foods, such as beans.

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Are there really so many daytraders out there who are holding leveraged ETFs for a single day, and guessing right about market direction often enough to stay solvent and continue coming back for more?

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We can have Social Security solvent for another 75 years with just a few modest changes.

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Some economists have argued that this market makes his prescription obsolete: there is no need for a central bank to save a solvent but illiquid bank, they say, because the interbank market does the job instead.

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We learn that water is an immensely powerful solvent, which in turn makes it work wonderfully as a transport system for the body.

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Social Security's actuaries assert that a two-percentage-point increase in payroll taxes would render the system solvent for another 75 years.

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It would not address the crucial issue of which governments are solvent and which are not. (Though it would provide a forum for doing that.) Nor would it get the ECB out of the business of rescuing governments - though at least it would now be doing so at one step removed.

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The payments, ranging from hundreds of dollars to a few thousand for most claims and tens of thousands for cancer claims, are a fraction of what plaintiffs might win in a trial against a solvent company.

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