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This arrangement came crashing down in the fall of 2008 as mortgage defaults increased and the guarantees became real liabilities.
FORBES: Weaning Ourselves from Economic Steroids - Excess Debt
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Hiding tens of billions in real estate and mortgage liabilities for a period of days just to dress up quarterly reports is fraud.
FORBES: Repo 105 Charge Offers a Touch of Closure
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These real-world impacts will be felt when currently unfunded liabilities need to be paid.
WSJ: Cox and Archer: Why $16 Trillion Only Hints at the True U.S. Debt
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Just because Washington's Enron-like accounting ignores these liabilities doesn't mean they are any less real politically or economically.
FORBES: Fact and Comment
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Third, the very fact that this lawsuit got to be as big as it is underscores a real vulnerability for all companies that have well-defined brand liabilities.
FORBES: Wal-Mart Could Face Major Unanticipated Problems in Historic Class Action
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This is purely nominal rebalancing, but it cuts the real value of government debt by a third, slashes government spending in real terms and balances the budget by inflating income and deflating liabilities and overheads.
FORBES: Inflation Is Key To Euro's Recovery
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It defined wealth as total assets including real estate, vehicles, bank deposits, investments and pensions minus liabilities such as outstanding mortgages, credit-card debt and other loans.
WSJ: ECB Survey Challenges Image of Poor Southern Europe
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So that's one concern, and another concern is some of them still have pretty tough liabilities on their books because a lot of them lent into commercial real estate or other loans that they're not sure are going to get repaid.
WHITEHOUSE: The White House
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Since then, demand for bonds has pushed real yields steadily lower, so that even as shares have recovered, stated pension liabilities have increased faster.
ECONOMIST: Company pensions
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One part ("the bad bank") will assume all the residential and commercial real-estate loans and securitized mortgages as assets, and all the long-term debt as liabilities.
WSJ: Banks Need Fewer Carrots and More Sticks