"Very clearly, it is wrong to use government property, government assets for political purposes, " McIntosh said.
Some government assets may be sold off, but that will take time.
David Stahan, the managing director of Phoenix Supply in Northern Ireland, said his owners had expressed a previous interest in Irish government assets and "remained interested".
Friday's lifting of sanctions did not include reinstating direct air service between the United States and Libya, nor is the release of frozen Libyan government assets authorized.
Collyns said there was a substantial risk that foreign investors' appetite for U.S. assets -- particularly government assets -- would diminish over time, adding to pressure on the dollar.
It will take over government assets such as a large oil refinery and one of the Caribbean's biggest dry docks, both in Willemstad, the capital, and the taxes from thriving tourist and offshore-banking industries.
This would measure the total amount of debt that can only be paid back by tax revenue or selling government assets, and so would be a more apples-to-apples comparison with historical Treasury debt, govt debt in other countries, etc.
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In recent weeks, talk of a government-created "bad bank" to absorb troubled assets resurfaced as a solution, as did a government insurance program to guarantee assets.
When the world body named him a terrorist financier, the Swiss government froze his assets.
While the reduction of debt will reduce the Federal Government's liabilities, the corporate shares will increase the Federal Government's assets.
Kitagawa has set new standards for information disclosure publishing a balance sheet of his government's assets and debts, a first for any prefecture in Japan.
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If raising public investment increases the government's assets, it's even possible that it could lower net debt - ie cut the numerator - as well as increasing GDP. (I said it was nerdy).
Through FEMA, the federal government is leveraging assets from the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Health and Human Services.
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This week the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear the case, which could affect a number of other white-collar cases where the government has frozen assets upon issuing an indictment.
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Also (though Mr Cable does not make this very nerdy point), it's worth remembering that the government measure - net debt - is what you get when you subtract the government's assets from its gross liabilities (debt).
This time, it looks like the government will take on assets from otherwise healthy institutions.
Greek social security funds hold nearly two-thirds of their liquid assets in government bonds.
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But yields are not great, and it is far from clear that the federal government will backstop the assets.
Another likely divestiture is Argentina, where the government has nationalized oil assets.
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They are counted as part of banks' capital, and prudential regulations often require pension funds to hold a minimum share of their assets in government securities.
They will also have to provide more capital against such assets as government debt, hitherto regarded as risk-free, and increase the amount set aside for foreign-exchange dealings.
Banks are compelled to hold 30% of their assets in government bonds and give 40% of their loans to the "priority sector, " which includes agriculture and small businesses.
More money is being sent in to recapitalise the banks, Cypriot loans are being rescheduled, the government will sell off assets to help plug the gap and so on.
"The government could have offloaded assets when the market was at its peak which would have helped the fiscal deficit, " said Jerry Rao, venture advisor at New Enterprise Associates, a venture capital firm.
On Thursday, Japan's central bank unveiled a plan to buy trillions of yen more in government bonds and other assets, as part of a new easing campaign to depress long-term yields and eventually revive the long-stagnant economy.
Only in Brazil, where a lot of bank assets are still under government control, and where there are three large, healthy private Brazilian banks, is the share of banking assets under foreign control likely to remain relatively low.
The original plan, hatched under George Bush, was that the government should buy up these assets.
To get there, it buys not only government paper but also riskier assets such as exchange-traded funds.
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To finance the off-balance-sheet assets, the government set deposit interest rates at very low levels: 1% or so.
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