bail-outs
Government financial rescues
Bail-outs is the plural of bail-out, a rescue from financial distress—typically when governments or institutions inject money to prevent collapse: The bank bail-outs during the financial crisis proved controversial.
The term carries connotations of rewarding failure or protecting the powerful from consequences that ordinary people would face.
Strong negative reaction
- cronyismFavoring friends in appointments
- outrageFierce moral indignation
- accountabilityObligation for one's actions
- unfairnessUnjust or biased treatment
protest · populism · dissent · scandal · oversight · transparency · privilege · criticism
What prompts a reaction
- recessionProlonged economic decline
- liquidityConvertibility to cash
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
- deficitAmount still owed
fiscal · monetary · solvency · credit · bankruptcy · debt · inflation · austerity
Essential connection to safety
- interventionPurposeful involvement to change course
- reliefEasing of distress
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- aidSupport given freely
assistance · reprieve · salvage · support · stabilization · recapitalization · guarantees · injection
backlash
Strong negative reaction
- cronyismFavoring friends in appointments
- outrageFierce moral indignation
- accountabilityObligation for one's actions
unfairness · protest · populism · dissent · scandal · oversight · transparency · privilege · criticism · debate
stimulus
What prompts a reaction
- recessionProlonged economic decline
- liquidityConvertibility to cash
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
deficit · fiscal · monetary · solvency · credit · bankruptcy · debt · inflation · austerity · market
lifeline
Essential connection to safety
- interventionPurposeful involvement to change course
- reliefEasing of distress
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
aid · assistance · reprieve · salvage · support · stabilization · recapitalization · guarantees · injection · package
banks
Financial institutions or riversides
- automakersCompanies manufacturing vehicles
- airlinesCommercial flight operators
- AIGGlobal insurance conglomerate
GM · Chrysler · insurers · Lehman · eurozone · Greece · corporate · industry · manufacturing
bail-outsbankruptcy
Legal status when insolvent
liquidation · foreclosure · collapse · default · bank failure
bail-outsbail-ins
Creditor-funded bank stabilization
restructuring · austerity measures · cost-cutting · bootstrapping · self-sufficiency
bail-outscreative destruction
Innovation displacing the obsolete
sink or swim · no safety net · laissez-faire · accountability · non-intervention