bailout
Emergency monetary intervention
A bailout is financial rescue of a failing entity—typically when governments inject funds into banks, corporations, or industries to prevent collapse.
The term carries connotations of controversy: critics see bailouts as rewarding irresponsibility with taxpayer money, while defenders argue they prevent broader economic catastrophe.
The 2008 bank bailouts sparked protests across the country.
More generally, any rescue from difficulty: My parents gave me a bailout when I couldn't make rent.
Prolonged economic decline
- collapseSudden structural failure
- meltdownCatastrophic loss of control
- depressionProlonged low state
- defaultPreset standard option
bankruptcy · insolvency · downturn · foreclosure · bubble · contagion · too big to fail · subprime
American finance hub
- bankPlace holding deposits
- automakerVehicle manufacturer
- AIGGlobal insurance conglomerate
- LehmanDefunct investment bank
TARP · Fannie Mae · Freddie Mac · General Motors · Chrysler · taxpayer · shareholder · golden parachute
Essential connection to safety
- salvageRecovering damaged goods
- saveProtect from loss
- extricateFree from entanglement
- deliveranceRescue from bondage
recovery · lifesaver · emergency · intervention · turnaround · last resort · safety net · stopgap
What prompts a reaction
- liquidityConvertibility to cash
- solvencyCapacity to pay debts
- capitalWealth used for investment
- infusionSteeping to extract essence
debt · loan · credit · funding · backstop · guarantee · restructuring · refinance
Financial assistance from government
- grantBestow or award money
- fundingSupplying monetary resources
- allocationDistribution of shares
- stimulus packageGovernment spending to revive economy
federal reserve · treasury · nationalization · public funds · appropriation · emergency powers · congressional · bipartisan
recession
Prolonged economic decline
- collapseSudden structural failure
- meltdownCatastrophic loss of control
- depressionProlonged low state
default · bankruptcy · insolvency · downturn · foreclosure · bubble · contagion · too big to fail · subprime · bank run
Wall Street
American finance hub
Lehman · TARP · Fannie Mae · Freddie Mac · General Motors · Chrysler · taxpayer · shareholder · golden parachute · moral hazard
lifeline
Essential connection to safety
deliverance · recovery · lifesaver · emergency · intervention · turnaround · last resort · safety net · stopgap · parachute
stimulus
What prompts a reaction
infusion · debt · loan · credit · funding · backstop · guarantee · restructuring · refinance · bond
subsidy
Financial assistance from government
- grantBestow or award money
- fundingSupplying monetary resources
- allocationDistribution of shares
stimulus package · federal reserve · treasury · nationalization · public funds · appropriation · emergency powers · congressional · bipartisan · legislation
- economic policymonetary policy, tax policy, fiscal discipline, fiscal stimulus, fiscal restraint
- stock marketstock, shares, stocks, trading, stock market
- Air Combatair strike, airstrikes, fighter pilot, bombing run, combat aircraft
- Bailoutsrescue package, rescue fund, TARP, recapitalization, government aid
- corporate crisesbankruptcy filing, scandal, lawsuit, layoffs, data breach
- economic problemsmarket failure, recession, inflation, deflation, stagflation
bailoutcollapse
Sudden structural failure
failure · bankruptcy · liquidation · abandonment · default
bailoutlaissez-faire
Noninterference in commerce
creative destruction · non-intervention · sink or swim · free market · austerity
bailoutloan
Borrowed money repaid later
bootstrap · organic growth · debt financing · belt-tightening · cost-cutting
- bank bailoutsGovernment funds saving institutions
- bailout programsEmergency financial assistance plans
- bailout fundsEmergency money for struggling entities
- auto bailoutGovernment aid to carmakers