The coal industry has been one example of that where people came in from outside and took the resources and the money, and left the mess behind.
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All of this is a testament to the wily ways of the sophisticated followers of the scandal and more directly to the exacting, effective investigation of the bankruptcy trustee and eagerness of those who took out a great deal of money to get this unpleasant mess behind them.
Well, yes, because we just spent all that time, energy and money trying to clean up a big mess.
And the interest rate freeze is I think merited, because look at what's happening -- if you're a big bank that helped get us into this mess, you go borrow money from Abu Dhabi or somewhere.
You are lavishing money on the people who got you into this mess.
The money is there to get this country out of this mess.
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Having been savaged by an outraged electorate over the liquidation of seven jusen, or mortgage companies, last year, and with a crucial upper-house election due next summer, Japanese politicians have been understandably nervous about even hinting that public money is needed to sort out Japan's banking mess.
That may lead other foreign banks to withdraw their money from Vietnam, leaving the joint stock banks in a mess.
And though reform may create savings in the long run, it initially costs money and the public finances are already in a mess.
But with the banks in such a mess, partners may have to be lured with public money to write off their bad debts.
The frackers and their investors will have made their money and long gone leaving you and I to deal with the fracking mess left behind.
Programs that take money away from the rich to give to the poor, Becker argues, mess with incentives.
Fixing this mess will require guts, imagination and a lot of taxpayers' money.
People want to get money back, fine go after the truly deep-pockets who caused this mess: Ackman, Soros, Einhorn, Paulson, Chanos, and the other shorts who abused mark-to-market and naked short selling.
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In recent weeks, Tokyo has trotted out a parade of politicians and bureaucrats to make the pitch: the bad-loan mess at the banks is under control, more public-works money is rolling down the pipeline, consumers are perking up.
When the controls were removed the excess supply of money fueled inflation with a vengeance and Paul Volcker was left to clean up the mess.
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If the countries of the eurozone are really determined to mess up this single currency of theirs, there isn't enough money in the world to save them.
The irony, which seems to have been lost on Washington, is that an artificially low cost of capital (created by lenders who lost sight of risk management) got us into this mess in the first place, and now we're considering returning to easy money to get us out of it.
It makes me angry that the banks got us into this mess, caused people like me to lose their job, but are now demanding their money back.
Reagan sounds genuinely surprised in his diary about the Iran-contra mess, in which his people sold weapons to Iran and then sent some of the money to the contras, the rebels trying to overthrow the government of Nicaragua.
It would be interesting to see how many Republicans would vote against him, given the fact that integrity has become the big issue in that district, given the fact that he's under indictment by Ronnie Earle in a money laundering case in Texas, given the fact that he's involved in the Jack Abramoff mess in Washington.
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