Ford and Chrysler aren't as bad off now, but their turn in the box will come.
And it's not as bad off as Detroit, so living there can't be gritty and cool.
These did more to take bad guys off the streets than harassing squeegee men.
Worse, rather than writing their bad loans off, Japanese banks have merely written most of them down.
The revenue from reclamation is small enough that ReCellular has to pay the recycler to take the bad phones off its hands.
They were specifically designed to "take bad debt off balance sheet".
The idea is the government would basically buy up the millions of problematic loans to slow foreclosures and get the bad investments off of everybody's books.
But now, three years on from Lehman and ten years almost to the day with Enron, we are not supposed to take bad debts off balance sheets.
The central government, in response to the 1990s crisis, took bad loans off the books of the four largest banks by having newly formed asset management companies buy troubled assets at above-market values.
"They would like to show that there is a price to pay for the kinds of activities that these people engaged in, but most importantly, they want to keep some bad actors off the street right now, " Steinberg said.
Banks have made slow progress in writing off bad loans, and companies have been equally slow to sell off assets and reduce debts.
With the woes of the financial sector grabbing headlines, technology companies could opt to write-off bad acquisitions now, kill ill-conceived product lines or lay off unneeded workers.
And then, alas, the cycle starts all over again as more bad guys rip off more consumers.
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"Finally being a bad golfer paid off, " Jesse told the Los Angeles Times.
Many weak, indebted borrowers would be driven out of business should the banks start writing off bad debts and cutting credit lines.
It would be attacking philosophy itself to point out that Mr Danto is better at picking off bad answers than providing his own.
And yet they're tied 1-1 with the presumed 2013 NBA champions, because they're well-coached by Tom Thibodeau, shrug off bad games and don't quit.
Though Indian banks have been trying hard to improve the quality of earnings, they are still writing off bad loans made in the 1980s.
"Halo 4's" epic fight sequences require players to confront waves of enemies in one mission, then pick off bad guys one by one in another.
We supported TARP as a way to prevent a financial meltdown, providing public capital to help regulators manage problem banks, arrange mergers, and work off bad assets.
As most banks already wrote off bad debt during 2008 and 2009, the decline in credit cards in use is unlikely to have come from card cancellations.
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Helping them to close their books in September would not deal with the banks' basic challenges: how to write off bad loans and where to get the money to do it.
Both have learnt that attention-seeking bad behaviour pays off.
Among big banks, Schutz has a sizable position in Citigroup, which he expects to generate the best returns among money center banks as it sells off bad assets and begins buying back stock.
But Tokyo-ites and the municipal assembly are livid that billions in public funds have gone to the banks to help them write off bad debts built up over years of bad management, and overwhelmingly backed the governor.
Traditionally gold is supposed to be a hedge against bad news, but as the focus of momentum traders, it goes up on good news and sells off on bad news.
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This centralized bad bank would take the FDIC off the hook for a lot of banks' bad loans.
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