Once that happens, we can talk about things like class actions to get people the damages back from forced liquidation, and all of that.

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All this suggests that forced liquidation was a factor in the market's demise but that the worst may be over sooner rather than later.

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How significant, in percentage and dollar terms, is the difference between the values the investment managers report to the pension regarding alternative investments and the liquidation values the pension might actually receive in a forced liquidation?

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The rail regulator's problems stem from the government's failure to reform the system after Railtrack was forced into liquidation.

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And by putting teeth into bankruptcy laws, so that insolvent firms were actually forced into liquidation, mismanagement would also at last have a downside.

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