No market risk and the implicit (or even explicit) state guarantee: Pay a fixed amount now, and when Junior goes to a state college, his tuition is covered.
Moreover, with the United States on recession watch, there is no guarantee it will pay off.
If you offer unique content at a fair price, I guarantee people will pay for it.
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The company was hoping to use the federal loan guarantee to help pay for an additional 300 megawatts of production capacity at the same site.
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You will have to pay a fee and it is important to bear in mind that even if you win, there is no guarantee the trader will pay.
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The difference between the normally lower futures price and the spot price is an insurance premium the farmer is willing to pay to guarantee himself the September price, when he can deliver his crop.
They are expensive and time consuming, and there is no guarantee that the investment will pay off.
When the 2008-09 global economic crisis disclosed the weakness of many Irish bank loans--what Warren Buffett calls swimming naked when the tide goes out--the Irish government decided to guarantee all bank depositors and pay withdrawals from new debt.
These new tax credits guarantee that you'll never pay more than a certain percentage of your income for your premium.
But Congress has slashed the loan guarantee program's budget to pay for other priorities, such as last year's "Cash for Clunkers" program to boost auto sales.
With employers like Liu calling for a lower minimum wage, South Africa finds itself in a situation where it is desperate to create work, but unable to guarantee what the government considers decent pay.
Workers pay high taxes, but trade job security for a guarantee, should they be laid off, of time-limited but generous unemployment pay that they can live on and a promise that they will get new jobs fast.
That usually means CFOs are accounting for losses and have to hold cash in order to guarantee regulators that they have enough to pay their retiree commitments three years from now.
While 3D movies may have been successful at box office, that does not guarantee the success of 3D programming on pay-TV without several modifications necessary to reduce inconvenience and potential health hazards.
For clients willing to pay enough, it will even guarantee a No. 1 spot.
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The French president wants a banking union with a joint guarantee of deposits and a joint fund to pay down debt.
The American education system is broken, and too many students have to take out crushing loans to pay for degrees that no longer guarantee high-paying jobs.
It is widely perceived that they will be bailed out by the government should mortgage defaults force them to pay off bondholders whose debt they guarantee.
Then again, when you look at how that marriage turned out, it proves that breaking the bank to pay for your wedding does not guarantee a successful marriage.
"When you have to pay for it as an amenity they guarantee you the reliability and speed and the security, " he says.
The short answer is that much of the lending has gone not to guarantee the deposits of deserving savers, nor even to pay the pensions of impoverished old folk or the wages of unpaid miners.
If they are going to pay for it, they want higher education to guarantee them a flying start in the job market.
With no guarantee that he'll be allowed to work to help pay them back, or be granted asylum, Philemon's future, like that of so many others, hangs in the balance.
Ideally investment banks would have no public guarantee, their profits would reflect private endeavour alone, and their pay would be decided by their owners.
Mr. Bush: We pay a company to hack us every year, so I guarantee that we've been hacked.
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Assume that America's top five investment banks would pay two percentage points more on unsecured borrowings without an implicit guarantee.
In addition in some situations it will pay the agent to expend resources (bonding costs) to guarantee that he will not take certain actions which would harm the principal or to ensure that the principal will be compensated if he does take such actions.
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It's technically illegal, but easy enough, to flag down pretty much any passing car and pay for a ride around the city, although there's no guarantee of the car, or the driver, being roadworthy.
Because the Rhode Island loan guarantee is backed by "moral obligation" bonds, the state can choose to not pay the millions borrowed by 38 Studios.
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