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To calculate the value of each loan in their portfolio, for example, bankers need to know three things: how much it will earn the bank if fully paid back, how likely the borrower is to default and, in the case of default, how much the bank can expect to get back.
Germany could decide to back the more radical option and to allow Greece to default.
That means they cannot borrow any more money for a minimum of a few years (Argentina seemed to be able to come back fairly quickly after default), but it would go a long way toward balancing the government budget.
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Coming when investors already are concerned about the strength and duration of the economic recovery, and the cost of the fiscal policies that led back to growth, Dubai World's default risk may be only one of the risks that market actors were underpricing.
For his part, Mr Davis launched his offensive by accusing his opponents of trying to take back control of the state by default.
The logic is that most Greek and other government debt are held by banks, so if we let these countries default the banks will default, so we are back to November 2008.
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Just how unlikely investors are to get their money back can be gauged by the default statistics that the rating agencies produce.
What's more, that certainly appears to be the default Android search box lurking back there, something that's not part of the Blur homescreen.
Jason Keenan, an Icann spokesperson, says that the new policy won't reserve trademarks by default, but companies will be able to claw back a branded site name retroactively.
And the UK could hardly insulate itself from a Eurozone tipped back into recession, were that to be the consequence of a disorderly Greek default.
Bond insurance guarantees investors will get their principal back if borrowers default on their loans, but First Marblehead will have to pay premiums that will shave its profit margin, he noted.
Few municipal issuers default, and the insurers didn't offer to back very risky issues, so they had an easy business, but they have gotten greedy in recent years, providing backing for complex securities like collateralized debt obligations, which are built in part out of subprime mortgages.
To some extent she has taken the role by default, as America has stepped back from peacemaking.
Some go so far as to say that if a bond is insured and bondholders receive back the par value, no default has taken place, just an unscheduled call.
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The function is built for busy lifestyles and will automatically become the default setting once set up, allowing back-up and sharing of treasured memories to be stored in an instant.
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And since we can never default on our debt, there is never a reason to stop spending until unemployment drops back around 4% again.
But that option is worth less when bondholders must take a back seat to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and as Brazil showed in the 11 years it was in default until 1994, it can take years to get even a fraction of your money back.
And when the banks pull back on their lending, as they did following the big bust, there will eventually be fewer loans on which to default.
The stated intention of this policy is to introduce more inflation as a means to potentially stimulate economic activity, but it also provides a means to pay back the large amassed debts with less valuable paper currency without having to deal with the short-term pain of actual default.
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