This means that they are safe from bankruptcy, divorce and most tax liabilities.
Also, their two big accomplishments--the stimulus bill and the health care bill (assuming it passes)--are mixed bags at best, and most likely liabilities in the swing districts the Dems will have to hold to stay in power.
Mr Huntsman's service as envoy in Beijing until April this year is seen as one of his most significant liabilities, with some staunchly conservative Republicans viewing his work for Mr Obama as a betrayal of the Republican Party.
Most of their liabilities are short-term, so they have had little choice but to stick mainly to bombproof investments, such as cash.
In fact, as happens increasingly in such situations, the state and city between them have removed or underwritten most worries about liabilities.
Fed lending and asset purchases on such a massive scale caused equal expansion of its liabilities, most importantly the reserve deposits of commercial banks and thrifts.
By contrast, Iceland's own banks accounted for all its banking liabilities, and most of these were in foreign currency.
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When most states were gleefully building unsustainable liabilities in the pre-crash party years, Daniels was scrutinizing every line item of state government.
The Germans see most of these ideas as increasing the liabilities of German taxpayers.
The statistic given the most scrutiny is contractors' interest-bearing liabilities as a percentage of annual sales.
If governments' accounts included future liabilities such as unfunded pension obligations, most budgets would still be in deficit.
Credit Suisse cites Hungary as one of the most vulnerable countries to deflation because its net foreign liabilities are 123% of GDP.
With legacy countries in a state of long-term insolvency, and major banks highly leveraged and with opaque balance sheets sitting on trillions in liabilities, policymakers have resorted to one of the most dangerous solutions in the aftermath of the financial crisis: money printing.
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Payment in full of all outstanding liabilities is usually required during the amnesty period--most programs do not offer installment plan options.
States show current contributions as expense, not billion dollar liabilities (money owed), and worst yet, most states use ludicrous actuarial assumptions to estimate the returns on pension funds.
The decline in proprietary investments would most likely lead to the same funds then being employed towards gradually reducing liabilities (debt), making the company leaner.
Unlike banks, which have two-thirds of their liabilities in sticky, low-cost deposits, GE gets most of its funding from commercial paper and bonds that can become expensive or inaccessible in a crisis.
Moreover, while most of the original claims were filed under product-liability clauses, where liabilities are capped, the later claims are being filed under general work-environment clauses, which impose no limit on awards.
The airline is expected to announce its quarterly results shortly, and they will most likely be disastrous considering it has been flying less cargo, less passengers, and has millions in worker liabilities.
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