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...attractions of this Swedish model is that it reduces so-called "moral hazard" - effectively rewarding poor or reckless risk assessment - by forcing financial institutions that took the highest risks to pay towards their own rescue. And it allows the state to recoup the money that it expends to buy up the bad debt at the core of the problem...
...Swedish example offers one way to minimize such "moral hazard" and potentially recoup some of the funds taxpayers are being asked to spend to help get the credit markets rolling again. The idea, says Lundgren, is not to just give money, but "to get some ownership (in return), and eventually be able to get some revenue back." By taking a stake in its enfeebled banks, Sweden was able to minimize the taxpayers' burden in the long...
...kind of pictures that made them stars. Righteous Kill is not a classic like The Godfather a or critical darling like Heat. It's a workaday crime thriller, opening in more than 3,100 theaters. But it's likely to be profitable for Overture, which is almost certain to recoup the more than $10 million investment it made in Righteous Kill at the Cannes Film Festival last year. "If it does $25 million lifetime, we'll be happy," says Chris McGurk, CEO of Overture, a division of Liberty Media that launched in January...
...charge. Aside from the black rubber-capped electrical outlet installed on the rear left bumper, Cox's Silver Prius looks exactly as it did before the conversion. "I don't think I'll make the money back," admits Cox, who estimates that it will take 10 years to recoup the cost in saved gas. "I bought it so I could put the word out there and say, 'Hey, this is possible,'" he says...
...accounting so new spending or tax cuts are offset by program cuts or increased revenue, but he hasn't said how he would pay for all his tax proposals or universal-health-care plan. He would end earmarks and stop "waste, fraud and abuse" to recoup hundreds of millions. But it's unclear how. The former budget stickler has proposed costly tax cuts, but his spending cuts don't add up. REGULATION Unregulated Wall Street products like CDOs contributed to the financial crisis. How would the candidates change regulation in the financial industry? He calls for "a 21st century regulatory...