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We will make sure that companies don't go bankrupt from the COVID-19 shocks. Normal, competitive companies will never be shut just because of a temporary liquidity shortage.

President Moon Jae-in

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The problem with the economic side is that if it lasts more than a few months, it then takes on its own momentum, if you look across the United States and across other countries, the unemployment rate can go up very quickly, but it cant come back down very quickly. It never has. A business whose balance sheet is in tatters after nine months without revenues might go bankrupt, it might go out of business, or it wont be in position to hire people back immediately even if demand returns.

Jason Furman

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Should the carbon pricing mechanism be introduced today, all the region's coal-fired power plants would go bankrupt overnight.

Janez Kopac

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Western Balkans coal power producers participate in the single European power market on an equal basis as EU stakeholders, yet they get a free pass when it comes to paying for their CO2 emissions, should the carbon pricing mechanism be introduced today, all the region's coal-fired power plants would go bankrupt overnight.

Janez Kopac

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I'm now the nominee of the Democratic Party. I inherit nothing from the Democratic Party, it was bankrupt, it was on the verge of insolvency, its data was mediocre to poor, non-existent, wrong. I had to inject money into it -- The Republican committee -- to keep it going.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If we proceed on the current path and each county and city brings their case and extracts whatever amount they may be able to get from these companies, the companies will end up bankrupt, the opioid crisis is a national problem that demands a national solution.

North Carolina Stein

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is immoral and unconscionable that families across the country are finding themselves nearly broke or bankrupt because of crippling medical debt while the health care industry made more than $100 billion in profits last year.

Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This should not be going on in America, not for a veteran, not for any person in this country, and it is beyond comprehension that under the current healthcare system, somewhere like a half a million people go bankrupt every year because of medical bills, clearly we are not doing what we should be doing to make sure that every veteran in this country gets all of the quality healthcare they need when they need it.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
4 years ago

500,000 people go bankrupt every year because they can not pay their outrageous medical bills.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In the midst of a dysfunctional health care system, what we have got to do is say that you can not go bankrupt. You can not end up in financial distress, because you're terribly sick. That's cruel, and that is something we've got to end.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We cannot create an economy that works for all Americans if we continue to neglect the needs of rural America, in rural America, we are seeing giant agribusiness conglomerates extract as much wealth out of small communities as they can, while family farmers are going bankrupt and, in many cases, treated like modern-day indentured servants.

Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In rural America, we are seeing giant agribusiness conglomerates extract as much wealth out of small communities as they can, while family farmers are going bankrupt and, in many cases, treated like modern-day indentured servants.

Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We have made the argument, unsuccessfully to date, to both Russia and China that they are not helping themselves, if they are concerned ... about the recovery of money they have lent or invested, a bankrupt Venezuelan economy will never be able to repay those amounts, only a Venezuela in recovery will be able to do so.

Elliott Abrams

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We have to be relentless about costs in order to make affordable cars and not go bankrupt.

Elon Musk

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We call on the OAS and all its member states to act on basic, decent democratic principles and the incontrovertible facts on the ground, his regime is morally bankrupt, it's economically incompetent and it is profoundly corrupt.

Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Russia used to be The Soviet Union. Afghanistan made it Russia because they went bankrupt fighting in Afghanistan. Russia. So you take a look at other countries. Pakistan is there. They should be fighting, but Russia should be fighting. The reason Russia was in, in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia. They were right to be there. The problem is it was a tough fight. And literally they went bankrupt. They went into being called Russia again as opposed to the The Soviet Union.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If somebody comes and makes a better electric car than Tesla, and it's so much better than ours that we can't sell our cars and we go bankrupt, I still think that's a good thing for the world.

Elon Musk

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The Democrats don't care about what their extremist immigration agenda will do to your communities, to your hospitals -- what about your hospitals and to your schools, the Democrats don't care that a flood of illegal immigration will bankrupt our country.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The media has an unfortunate tendency to focus on the hospital insurance fund without considering the bigger picture, saying that Medicare is going bankrupt is not a rational description of what is happening.

Robert Moffit

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste

André Aciman

added by sriyantosaja
6 years ago

Trump economics is a recipe for lower wages, fewer jobs, more debt, he could bankrupt America like he bankrupted his companies. I mean, ask yourself: How can anybody lose money running a casino, really?

Hillary Clinton

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The landscape of history is littered with companies who have been killed or bankrupt by digitized companies like Amazon.

Judge Emmet Sullivan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In years past you would sit in a presentation and say: great, this company is not going bankrupt, but fairly boring at 5 percent, definitely part of this year's function is that so much of our market is trading at distressed or recessionary levels.

Darren Hughes

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's one thing to run casinos that have gone bankrupt, it's another to run a country and its foreign policy.

David Ader

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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