As if passing the hot potato, fund managers have been buying and holding these bonds for a few years and then exchanging them for something else, Mr. Chappell said.
Rather, they are being asked to buy based on the hope that they will eventually be able to pass the hot potato on to someone else before being burned.
The move comes as Republicans grapple with the hot-potato issue of raising the government's borrowing limit later this year, one of the few must-do items on a dysfunctional Washington's agenda this year.
That urge to flee was especially fierce in the hot-potato days of the tech bust.
The hot-potato game with risk started with an apartment owner that faced increased electric bills during bad winters.
The Clinton-Gore campaign responds to the RNC's "Pledge" and throws the tax hot potato back into Dole's lap.
Hull coach Richard Agar admitted the issue was "a hot potato, " but said he backed the player's involvement with England.
The government is likely to see it as a very hot potato indeed, and the British Organ Donation Society thinks it doesn't take sufficient account of families' wishes.
Then they realized people would have to fly without the reassuring blur of propellers turning and dropped the jet engine like a hot potato.
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But the possibility that Governor Charlie Crist would like this hot potato transferred to Ohio rather than have it complicate his run for the Senate may be a contributing factor.
The issue may be an ethical hot potato, but it is far from academic.
He said the language issue was a "hot potato", but added he understood Councillor Glyn's position on it.
"He took over the national team when it was a hot potato and lots of people predicted we wouldn't even qualify for South Africa, " she added.
If Egypt gets a new constitution to pave the way for fresh parliamentary elections, the Brotherhood may well be left holding a hot potato of popular fury.
Maybe the soil out there is so rich, the days so hot and the nights so cool and crisp, that a 12, 000-pound potato is within the realm of possibility.
Prior to Skillshare, Karnjanaprakorn led the product team at check-in service provider Hot Potato, which was acquired by Facebook to build its Places tool.
The increase in liver disease has become a political hot potato - should there be a further tax on alcohol to deter drinkers or will they drink regardless?
Stephen Feinberg's Cerberus Capital Management is walking into the union buzz saw with its Chrysler Group purchase just as the buyout business is set to become a political hot potato.
McKibben repeated the trick a year ago when he rallied the largest environmental protest ever outside the White House to halt the Keystone XL pipeline an effort that turned the pipeline from a done deal to a political hot potato whose outcome is still in doubt.
This transformation of money into a hot potato would, by itself, produce the inflation that everyone would fear.
We encourage Republican and Democratic leaders to revisit the issue, though we recognize it is a political hot potato.
Probably only if the government were able to offer risk-adjusted returns at least equal to those they currently earn which, given traditional government procurement policies and the fact that drug-industry profits are a political hot potato, it seems unlikely to do.
And that makes bureaucratic reform and deregulation as much of a political hot potato as tax collection, which squeezes the disposable incomes of the self-employed from whose votes the other big party, Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom (PdL), has long profited.
It would rather pass this hot potato to an inter-agency group that would include the State Department and the Treasury to deal with hard cases.
It is hard not to see a game of hot potato at play here which eventually has to come back to the ECB.
By playing hot potato with a securities position, you can take maximum advantage of the fact that a family escapes capital gain taxes on assets owned by a decedent.
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Bernanke had to throw the ball back to the government in terms of fiscal policy, but nobody in Washington wants to catch this hot potato.
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