"It seems like we are returning to the time of Stroessner, when there were no real guarantees, " said Rodrigo Villagra, a leader of Paraguay's Co-ordinator of Human Rights.
Moreover, it is not uncommon for certificates to be issued by self-proclaimed experts or painting restorers who have no real authority or scholarship about the artist, and whose guarantees carry no real weight in the actual market.
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This arrangement came crashing down in the fall of 2008 as mortgage defaults increased and the guarantees became real liabilities.
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None of the "usual" guarantees, such as real estate or cash on deposit with banks, have been put up, the banker said.
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But this time around the guarantees might cost taxpayers real money.
According to a banker involved in the deal, none of the "usual" guarantees, such as real estate or cash on deposit with banks, have been put up, the banker said.
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Holding cash-on-deposit now guarantees a loss of real value.
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Strasbourg said it was unconvinced Jordan's legal guarantees against torture evidence would have "any real practical value".
The robust guarantees of the First Amendment are vital for real, live human beings, to ensure their expressive and democratic participative rights are protected.
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In the real world we call that supreme arrogance since even children know there are no guarantees in life.
The signature of a New York real estate developer who worked with Stern, Joshua Safrin, was also on the Citigroup bad boy guarantees, but Safrin claimed his signature had been forged and Citigroup seemed to believe him, stopping its lawsuit against Safrin.
"As we sense in real time more and more about the individual, such as moods and behaviour, we need to provide near absolute guarantees that the information will not be subject to theft or attack, down to the silicon melting and still not giving up its data, " says Justin Rattner, chief technology officer at Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker.
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