AVERTING DANGER -- Though the focus at times of crisis tends to be on the havoc and fear, there can also be "collateral benefits," to rephrase a military term.
It is also true, however, that innocent people of color inside those zones can be the collateral damage in the war both sides are fighting.
In patients with celiac stenosis, there can be retrograde collateral filling of the common hepatic artery from hypertrophied IPDA and gastroduodenal artery (GDA) branches (Fig. 4).
One saving grace in the euro zone crisis is that the European Central Bank has stopped saying that only the highest-rated sovereign debt can be pledged as collateral.
It also says that its holding company has $64 billion of "unencumbered" assets that can be used as collateral to generate cash.There is much at stake.
They can be used as collateral to secure lending and as a convenient place to store savings without much costly due diligence.
Tightening of the criteria that can be accepted as collateral in derivatives trades, along with higher margin requirements, also accelerate this computer-driven contagion.
Loans made for commercial real estate are typically among the safest, because a building can be used as collateral and big property developers generate income from the investment, raising the likelihood they will repay their loans.
For example, the Stulz team's paper shows that rising cash levels were, to some degree, influenced by a drop in capital spending on hard assets, which can be used as collateral for borrowing.
Germany has sent conflicting signals about whether, in the end, it would bail out a fellow euro country, but since Greek bonds can be used as collateral for loans at the European Central Bank, there is at least some institutional support.
