Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ford's salvo came as GM was negotiating a joint venture and minority stake in the successful but cash-strapped British carmaker. Now analysts expect that GM may be forced to try to buy the firm outright to prevent Ford from making a hostile raid. Should the battle between the two U.S. giants become heated, analysts predict, Jaguar shares currently valued at $2 billion might fetch as much as $2.9 billion...
...become a cliche that the Indians would have made out like bandits if they had merely invested the $24 they got at 8% (let alone in Fidelity's Magellan mutual fund). They'd have had $32 trillion by now. But the point is, they didn't take cash and invest it, they took trinkets. Today we're taking Nintendo games and Honda Preludes...
More important, the Soviet Union has a glut of cash, a so-called monetary overhang, which has ballooned under Mikhail Gorbachev because the Soviet government has run increasingly large budget deficits to maintain social peace by subsidizing prices for essential goods and services. The government prints more money to cover the gap, which in a free-market economy would increase inflation. But under the severe price controls of a command economy, the money has no place to go but under the mattress. Jan Vanous, research director of PlanEcon, a Washington-based consulting firm, estimates that...
Liquidating the S&Ls and shutting them down would have required $47 billion in "up-front cash," far more than is available immediately to the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp., Wall said. However, by selling off the property of the failed S&Ls, regulators eventually would have recouped all but $22.8 billion on the December transactions, he said...
Greenspan provided far more than just verbal encouragement. To ensure that Wall Street had sufficient cash to buy stocks after the Friday the 13th sell- off, the Fed pumped $2 billion into the banking system Monday. Earlier, E. Gerald Corrigan, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, urged officials in Japan and West Germany to support the U.S. dollar to help restore confidence in American markets. "The U.S. had excellent crisis management this time," said Heiko Thieme, the Manhattan-based chief strategist for West Germany's Deutsche Bank...