Are Bad Banks a Good Idea?

When we have a bad idea, the response to a bad idea is not no ideas, it's not to stop thinking.

The first idea is a bad one.

A government sponsored bad bank for private assets is thus a very bad idea.

The response to a bad idea like, say, a tungsten light bulb is a better idea. OK?

Yes, I am aware this is a very bad idea

I am aware that this is a very bad idea

So, maybe spraying DDT on crops is a really bad idea.

Capital controls remain a bad idea an idea that is far more seductive in theory than in practice.

If deregulation looks like such a bad idea now, why didn t it then?

There is another, practical, reason why the burqa ban is a bad idea.

Nuclear energy, fission, is really bad idea for bombs.

You all know about multitasking. You all have been faulty of multitasking when you're driving and you pick up your cellphone. Bad idea. Very bad idea.

In fact, you know, the White House used to have sheep in front in order to help fund the war effort in World War I, which probably is not a bad idea it wouldn't be a bad idea.

The idea of establishing general principles to be applied by each State was not therefore a bad one.

Allowing governments to pick industrial winners and losers is just as bad an idea today.

Egyptian netizens shared their thoughts and opinions about the meter on Twitter as follows omarkamel MorsiMeter NOT a bad idea.

Bishop Williamson s ideas may be loathsome, but criminal prosecution against a man for his views about history is probably a bad idea.

But my idea today is not to debate whether there's such a thing as good TV or bad TV my idea today is to tell you that I believe television has a conscience.

In 2011, a renewed focus on comprehensive economic sanctions could turn out to be the bad idea whose time has arrived.

This is not to say that wage insurance is a bad idea, or that it should not be implemented on a wider scale.

STOCKHOLM The idea of a bad bank appears to grow more popular by the day in countries where toxic assets have paralyzed lending.

In a region where threats to democracy and human rights are growing, linking trade and economic policy to these considerations is not a bad idea.

Chris Anderson That was fascinating. How do you reconcile this idea of someone being it being bad to think of someone as a loser with the idea, that a lot of people like, of seizing control of your life.

In fairness, the new rule proposed by former US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker to separate financial intermediation from proprietary trading is not a bad idea.

And while junkies think that it's a really bad idea to expose themselves to HIV, they think it's a much worse idea to spend the next year in jail where they'll probably end up in Frankie's situation and expose themselves to HIV anyway.

For an Arab Gulf country, where expressing one's idea is possible for the good and the bad, is a message for bloggers that their ideas are being watched.

The two really bad ideas that are hovering in the modern world that inhibit our capacity to draw strength from art The first idea is that art should be for art's sake a ridiculous idea an idea that art should live in a hermetic bubble and should not try to do anything with this troubled world.

Would it be a good idea for everyone to believe in the evil eye, so that when bad things happened to them they immediately blame their neighbors? Probably not.

But establishing them would be a bad idea, because to do so would imply that government subsidization of banks, thereby creating incentives for imprudent behavior in the long run.

And he's a bad guy. He's like a bad kid in church.

I also wonder if HM King Abdullah will also follow in these footsteps, even though I think that particularly would be a pretty bad idea for all the obvious reasons.

Who are the bad apples? Well, that's a bad question.

Not a bad idea. I don't know. I need to talk to Janine and a few other people about that, but I believe instinctively that that meringue can become something, a car I don't know.

How can a struggling country break out of poverty if it's trapped in a system of bad rules? Economist Paul Romer unveils a bold idea charter cities, city scale administrative zones governed by a coalition of nations.

Industrial policy failed miserably in the 1970 s and 1980 s. Allowing governments to pick industrial winners and losers is just as bad an idea today.

That's a bad zoo.

Except bad news for Derartu Tulu some other people had the same idea, including the Olympic gold medalist and Paula Radcliffe, who is a monster, the fastest woman marathoner in history by far.

The idea that we will make a society where literally everybody is graded, the good at the top, and the bad at the bottom, and it's exactly done as it should be, is impossible.

A Contagion of Bad Ideas

He's in a bad state.

Tom had a bad headache.

I've had a bad day.

Sami had a bad habit.

Smoking is a bad habit.