As long as you are not borrowing or getting investors involved you can watch the burn rate and think through the payoff if things actually work out with a couple of your horses.

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Also interestingly, Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities on the five- and ten-year durations are now either negative or flat, so investors are getting really, really small yields in fixed income.

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At the same time dozens of deals like the Chrysler and Alliance Boots loans, have been postponed or canceled in the weeks since investors started getting spooked about credit quality concerns in the mortgage bond markets.

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If some economic disaster arises that prevents these investors from getting at their cash or getting value from it, they still have their gold.

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But for Moynihan it may be a do or die situation in getting past all these mortgage problems as quickly as possible so he, and investors, can move on.

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Tunisian investors wary of getting caught in this web preferred to forgo business ventures and instead bought property or stashed funds abroad, continued the cable, so dampening growth and helping to sustain high unemployment.

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