The simple answer is because there are more teams in financial trouble in the NBA than the NFL, and thus, more of a collective cohesion among NBA owners to band together.

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Or you could wind up in more trouble than your current state of financial confusion.

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Cheapened dollars have already wrought financial trouble, but solar power costs far more than coal or oil.

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Medicaid, which pays more than 40 percent of these costs, is itself in serious financial trouble.

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The first is that if you can issue more money as and when you want, which you can if you control your own currency, then if the banks of the financial system get into trouble then you can just print more money to help them out.

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With the two big payors, the New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers already in financial trouble, the last thing Selig needs is another team owner more concerned with debt payments than winning.

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Meanwhile, in the U.S., 14 percent of us save 15 percent or more of our income and 51 percent of us say we are either in immediate financial trouble or not financially stable, meaning living paycheck to paycheck.

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If they get into financial trouble, they pay you with whatever is left after they pay the companies they like more than they like you.

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