Lehman might not be able to, despite the financial backstop from the Federal Reserve that continues until mid-January.
The Treasury is considering a "backstop" program, but he was vague about what that would be.
The Fed and the BOJ remain very accommodative, and that has helped provide a good backstop.
Fears over Cyprus have also been contained by the European Central Bank's backstop to euro nations.
But the leverage backstop is a simple way of reining in banks' excessive ambitions.
So the AMaxT is most important for the backstop promise it makes to young people and entrepreneurs.
Mr. GIULIANI: The federal government has to be a backstop for making sure that people have insurance.
By historical standards of what is deemed to be prudent, that leverage backstop is not desperately high.
TRIA, which offers a backstop to private insurers in the event of a terrorist incident on American soil.
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Ideally, we would limit marginal rates, but this is not practical in a simple backstop like the AMaxT.
And if not, the backstop of French and German taxpayers is a credible source of funds (lucky taxpayers).
And unlike corporate pension plans, which are guaranteed by the U.S. government, 401(k) plans have no such backstop.
Having no federal backstop did the market a lot of good, says Kenneth Froot at Harvard Business School.
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Backstop the IOC Africa Coordinator in the implementation of the IOC programmes in Africa, especially those concerning operational oceanography.
But yields are not great, and it is far from clear that the federal government will backstop the assets.
Yucaipa has agreed to backstop the program, meaning it will buy any stock that isn't purchased by other holders.
Fortunately past gains, especially through the World Trade Organization, may be a backstop.
Now, the government plans to use at least a portion of the funds to backstop lending by the Fed.
If they had that confidence, such a backstop would not be needed and the crisis would not have happened.
Is talk of an ECB "backstop" enough to resolve the crisis in the autumn of 2012, under President Draghi?
Japan leads the drive to boost the resources of the IMF as the backstop to national economies in crisis.
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For years the two men relied on fake profits from Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff to backstop their finances.
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Credit ratings for Dubai-owned companies now reflect this lesson, based on a fundamental credit outlook, not an implicit government backstop.
He chatted with coaches, posed with players and then leaned up against the backstop behind home plate to simply watch.
Speaking of Europe, Nordvig noted that the ECB has provided a liquidity backstop that has managed to plug the hole.
In the top of the first, the third batter, Ritchie Sexton of the Seattle Mariners, rolled a foul to the backstop.
And they're now considering using that authority, that backstop authority, to inject cash into Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac or both.
But there is also the backstop of the central government, which has formal debts amounting to only about 25% of GDP.
He would repeal the alternative minimum tax (AMT) and thus eliminate a major backstop against revenue losses from his rate cuts.
Big banks like his backstop billions of dollars of muni obligations with letters of credit that they may not want to renew.
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