Sentence examples for Get the upside from inspiring English sources

When things go well, they get the upside; when things go badly, that is largely someone else's problem.

But what we have now isn't private enterprise, it's lemon socialism: banks get the upside but taxpayers bear the risks.

Let's be honest: Everyone would like an arrangement in which they personally get the upside and the taxpayer gets the downside.

"They want to be able to take big risks where they get the upside and the taxpayer gets the potential downside".

Highly leveraged financial institutions do not have the incentive to be careful; their executives get the upside when things go well, and the downside is someone else's problem.

Powerful people on Wall Street will get the upside when things go well; you and I get stuck with the downside.

"In the financial crisis the banks got the upside and the public got the downside," said Stephen G. Cecchetti, head of the monetary and economic department of the Bank for International Settlements, in Basel, Switzerland.

"If Wall Street gets the upside in big bonuses from its high-risk derivatives deals, then it should also have to pay the downside for any losses," Kelleher wrote.

Mr. Paul is also broadly correct that the Federal Reserve has become, in part, a key mechanism through which large banks are rescued from their own folly, so that their management gets the upside when things go well and the realization of any downside risks is shoved onto other people.

"The model of the Fannie management and shareholders getting the upside and taxpayers being stuck with the downside, in the event Fannie runs into trouble, is likely to change," said Sean Egan, president of Egan-Jones Ratindependents, an indebtndent debt rating firm that does not receive payments from companies that it analyzes.

Mr. Ward, for instance, last week introduced, on Libation's cocktail list, a martini that's about as wet as it gets — the Upside-Down Martini, which, in a nice bit of pop-culture dovetailing, happened to be Julia Child's favorite cocktail.