Half would be reinvested in 30-year Greek government debt, with the remaining 20% put into triple A securities as a formofguarantee against losses on the Greek debt.
People with a rare genetic formof Alzheimer's, whose specific genetic mutations guarantee that they will develop the disease, tended to show signs of amyloid plaques in PET scans and cerebrospinal fluid 10 to 20 years before the onset of symptoms.
And then there's the quasi-tax that Georgia's government has imposed on its utility customers in the formof early rate increases to help the utility avoid invoking the loan guarantee.
Concerted actions by governments since then, first in the formof capital injections and liability guarantees, and more recently via schemes to buy or guarantee loans, have signalled their determination to stabilise and clean up their big banks.
Proprietary trading is harder to defend when it is sheltered by a government guarantee but any bank that acts as a marketmaker between buyers and sellers will end up taking some formof proprietary risk.