For anyone still paying for their education years after graduating, you could be forgiven for believing that Default resembles a horror movie more than a documentary.
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If they don't like the Greek compromise, they should reject the "voluntary" offer, stand up for the sanctity of contracts and push for a proper default that would trigger CDS payouts.
In Italy and France, for example, the big rise in prices that creditors to their banks have to pay for default insurance has tracked a significant rise in the price that creditors to their respective governments pay for protection.
At worst, governments might opt for outright default: note that this week's Greek restructuring has been designed to punish private-sector creditors, leaving official creditors untouched.
The Department of Labor today proposed "safe harbor" regulations that would allow employers to adopt certain default investments for indecisive workers without worrying that they'll be held liable if those investments go sour.
These credit default swaps acted as hedges for trillions of dollars of credit default swaps that J.
The painful truth for Britain is that a Greek default that precipitated big losses on loans to Ireland, Portugal and Spain would be immensely unpleasant for the UK's supersized banks - and, by implication, for British taxpayers too.
Now subtract a little something for the rare default, plus a fee for the mutual fund that is probably your best vehicle for holding muni bonds, and your likely return is very close to zilch.
While there is a default fund for those employees that are simply too busy or just prefer to go that route, everyone else must make an annual decision.
For example, believing that driving the country into default on its debt is good for all may be false, but it is not delusional.
So should every individual that was involved in packaging and selling CDOs and credit default swaps or who was responsible for anyone that was involved, so, basically, every single executive.
Lehmann says that default rates for both grades of corporate bonds are about the same and he's comfortable taking the higher yield.
However, voters might punish the opposition if they blamed it, rather than Mr Batlle's centre-right alliance, for the economic chaos that a default would bring.
All the companies on our list boast at least double the 5% national average for loans that are either in default or that have failed and forced the FHA to cover.
Yet when we adjust for the risks of default we find that munis have much higher prices (lower yields) then the risk profile would lead us to think they should.
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And perhaps that would be a very pointed object lesson for voters in Greece and Spain and Portugal that default and exit is even worse than the austerity the EU is insisting on.
These two colors have been HTC's bread and butter for many years, so it comes as no huge shocker that this would be the default choice for, well, Big Red.
Using a secured credit card is the least risky means of credit improvement because it requires the placement of a security deposit that protects an issuer against default, negates the need for an expensive fee structure and ensures that you will not spend beyond your means.
But we remain absolutely confident that the United States will not for the first time default on its obligations or risk default on its obligations, that Congress will act appropriately.
Empires that wandered there did so by default, for there never was anything in Afghanistan -- save for geography -- that outsiders coveted.
Against this tumultuous backdrop, Haarde vowed Tuesday that ordinary Icelanders would not pay the price for this spending spree and that his country will not default on its debt.
The consequences of that are serious, as the first time in our history, and for the first time we risk default and we have obligations that exceed our capacity to fulfill them.
And there is no question that if Congress does not compromise and does not act, that allowing the United States to default for the first time in its history would have severe economic consequences and would -- everyone, every family that owns a home and has a mortgage would be affected.
The U.S. Education Department just announced that the national student loan default rate rose for the fourth year in a row and an Institute for Higher Education Policy study showed that only 37% of federal student loan borrowers actually made their payments without interruption over the past five years.
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We readily recognize that the default gender for design has often been male.
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Yet the Philippines' financial situation is much improved since a year ago, when there were fears that it was heading for default.
But Microsoft is facing major opposition to its plan to make privacy the default setting for Internet Explorers, and that opposition from the advertising industry might mean that the setting winds up being completely useless.
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There are a group of his caucus that actually think default would be okay and have said that they would not vote for increasing the debt ceiling under any circumstances.
The Obama Administration would like that default rate to come down, at the same time it acknowledges that for-profits fill a crucial gap in the higher education realm.
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The trade body has also offered guidelines for what should happen to default swaps on companies that demerge or spin off units.
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