The MSCI Brazil (EWZ) exchange traded fund is down 8.73 percent year to date while the iShares FTSE China Xinhua 25 (FXI) ETF, the second worst performer due to a load of bank and real estate shares in that particular fund, is down 5.38 percent.

FORBES: Brazil's B In BRICs Stands For Boring

The hazard here is that GM might be tempted to load up the bank with poor-quality loans to shaky dealers in an effort to pump up vehicles sales, says Sean Egan, managing director of Egan-Jones Ratings.

FORBES

In Israel, the PFLP claimed credit for killing two Israelis and wounding six when they fired on a bus-load of Israeli settlers on the West Bank on 28 October 1991.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Now you might think this would be a very odd way to restore confidence in either the finances of an important bank or of a rather important eurozone government: one load of government IOUs of questionable intrinsic value would be swapped for a dubious right to future profits in a bank whose foundations have been crumbling.

BBC: No magic potion for eurozone banks

The days when any large-ish bank could set up shop, load its balance sheet with debt and become an also-ran in anything from bond underwriting to complex derivatives are over.

WSJ: Wall Street Giants Try a New Business Model

This distorts the flow of capital and bank credit, and allows inefficient enterprises to load banks with their dicey IOUs.

WSJ: China Might Have Over-Reached Itself

The European Central Bank must avoid creating an incentive for banks to load up on Greek debt and then offer it as collateral for liquidity from the ECB, by (controversially) offering less cash for government bonds with lower credit ratings.

ECONOMIST: Greece's debt crisis

In May, Bank of America introduced a Visa card that people can load up with money and mail to relatives in Mexico.

FORBES: Companies & Strategies

Maybe Bank of America, widely held as Wikileaks next big corporate target, should load up on pencil erasers and White-Out.

FORBES: Wikileaks' Friends Want to Borrow Your Money