For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.


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$250,000 isn't a lot, but it is enough to make a statement. We are looking for projects that will be...
AL HENRY
I'm proud of our team. We great leadership from our four seniors - Peter Jerome, Josh Trottier, Alex...
AL HENRY
Give credit where credit is due. Fargo South is a machine.
AL HENRY
This is an OK way to end it. As far as I'm concerned, our team is the winner.
AL HENRY
The tides which flow and lapse in the Bristol Channel are often distained by the freshets of many st...
HENRY WILLIAMSON
Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a batt...
HENRY VILLARD
Today, most believers are segregated and isolated in their church or in their home. If believers acc...
HENRY HON
Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.
HENRY ADAMS
You are the reason I don't want to die all the time. When I am with you, life is worth living. Tim...
HENRY ROLLINS
I was influenced by Ray Harryhausen and Lotte Reiniger, with her twitchy, cutout animation, which I ...
HENRY SELICK
The world is the mirror of myself dying.
HENRY MILLER
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inext...
HENRY MILLER
This is all the Inheritance I can give to my dear Family. The Religion of Christ can give them one w...
PATRICK HENRY
There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be freeif we mean to preserve inviolate those in...
PATRICK HENRY
Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our ...
PATRICK HENRY
It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a pain...
PATRICK HENRY
Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? ...
PATRICK HENRY
They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.
HENRY VAUGHAN
All this, and Heaven too!
PHILIP HENRY
To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold,...
HENRY ROLLINS
Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individu...
HENRY BONILLA
Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
HENRY FORD
I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, becaus...
HENRY PETROSKI
In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with...
HENRY ROLLINS
'Immortals' was very much a martial arts based training program - a lot of body weight stuff...
HENRY CAVILL