Rattrap?

A Contagion of Bad Ideas

Mahmoud Abbas s Bad Neighborhood

You lousy white trash.

Lousy white trash!

Of all the rotten, subversive tricks.

Lousy white trash, say a prayer.

Get out of those stinking saloons.

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

So you vent your frustration with your pitiful songs...

Are Bad Banks a Good Idea?

And you know something about a lousy school?

A lousy band can make the blues sound like a tango.

Why don't you get out of those stinking saloons?

You were transferred here to Leavenworth because of an inferior record.

How to Bail out Good Banks and Let Bad Banks Fail

Their bad assets will be separated and wound down over time.

Add songs and dances, trim bad scenes, add new ones.

The environment of fear that arises has little to do with bad government policies, although bad policy may exacerbate the situation.

The number of neural cells that are misconnected depends on dose.

A metaphor that isn't good leaves you confused.

I'll wear the darned clothes if you want me to, if you'll just... just like me.

This is not about lousy marriages, this is not about jobs that suck.

A bad bank can be an effective instrument in the recovery of losses and the revival of banks.

But how can we distinguish good banks from bad?

Lousy language...conceals the effects of real power and capacity, real wealth and influences.

even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.

Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

And here's this, like, dirty, kind of, shoddy, kind of, dark computer room.

All we ever hear about is bad news. The death, the destruction, wars, killing, murders, rapes.

As they absorb their losses on US treasury and agency securities, capital flows toward the US will diminish.

The poor conditions to which detainees are subjected will not make resolution of the conflict any easier.

Finally, the negative effects of poor climate policies are not just financial.

Moreover, securitization contributed to bad lending in the old days, banks that originated bad loans bore the consequences in the new world of securitization, the originators could pass the loans onto others.

Moreover, America has been exporting its problems abroad, not just by selling toxic mortgages and bad financial practices, but through the ever weakening dollar, in part a result of flawed macro and micro policies.

It is vital to staff bad banks with professional and experienced managers who are untainted by previous scandals.

The bad loans, in turn, have created massive holes in banks balance sheets, which have to be repaired.

Banks capital, therefore, is what stands between bad loans and insolvency.

Absent these missteps, expect a tougher ride on the global economy, but not a calamity.

The Great Depression was intensified by poor monetary policy, tax hikes, and protectionist trade policies.

I've been a lawman for 25 years. Worked every hellhole in the territory.

You scabby bastard, if I were in your lousy rags...

Lord knows we put enough rent into this rattrap to pay for four houses by now.

We find that the media not only fail to weed out bad ideas, but that they often favor bad ideas, especially when the truth is too messy to be packaged neatly.

We need a way to bail out good banks but allow bad banks to fail.