The phrase "asset problem" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing issues or challenges related to assets, such as financial, physical, or intellectual property.
Example: "The company is currently facing an asset problem that is affecting its overall financial stability."
Alternatives: "asset issue" or "asset challenge".
"This valuation shows the treasurer that there is no asset problem and these assets would secure any guarantee by the Queensland government".
By that time, the Treasury should be ready with a comprehensive plan for the banks' continuing "toxic asset" problem, which should be carried out as nearly concurrently with the full stimulus as possible, for maximum effect on the confidence of everyone.
Its toxic asset problem was solved for good.
Moreover, these banks typically don't have the toxic asset problems that afflict their American counterparts.
Though UBS's toxic asset problems have now been largely dealt with, the bank is still contending with net new money outflows, thanks to the reputational damage done by its subprime losses.
The way to solve the safe-asset problem, the BIS suggests, is through broad austerity sufficient to return many sovereigns to creditworthiness.
But if that happens, no one's going to be complaining, because it'll mean that, to a large extent, the toxic-asset problem will have been mitigated and the banking system will be considerably healthier than it is today.
By contrast, the vagueness of the plan that was rolled out today did not exactly instill confidence, particularly since even in its broad outlines it's not obvious that it really comes to terms with the toxic-asset problem.
More important, perhaps, by reducing the threat of panicked runs on bank debt (since those debts would have been guaranteed), such a guarantee would also have made it easier for regulators and banks to deal in a transparent fashion with the toxic-asset problem.
Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, has warned that the stranded-asset problem could threaten global financial stability if the "carbon budgets" implied by global and regional climate deals render worthless fossilfuel reserves that oil companies' balance sheets currently value at trillions of dollars.
The big, new plan to solve the banks' toxic assets problem, unveiled earlier this week by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, has come under intense scrutiny in the blogosphere and elsewhere.
