Their entire purpose is to create and squeeze the efficiencies out of you until you drop dead or are no longer needed.
This creates a squeeze at both ends.
Mario Draghi, the president of the central bank, expressed concern Thursday that the tougher standards for banks could prompt them to stop making loans, creating a squeeze on credit.
"If you look back to the 1981 economic policy, they were creating a squeeze on spending that was supposed to force hard decisions," Mr. Lew said.
The danger becomes dual, says Danson: "If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system".
Meanwhile companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook that require tools and equipment that can handle tremendous scale, are building their own data centers and designing their own networking equipment, creating a squeeze for the company.
It creates a squeeze for everything else," Quinn's budget director, David Vaught, told the Associated Press.
But it said several risk factors remained and a delay could create a cash squeeze which could force the company to file for bankruptcy protection.
It said Mr. Tehrani had told other brokers he was trying to create a "short squeeze," in which investors who sold shares in expectation of a price decline are forced to buy shares at high prices.
The common thread in all three was asset-backed commercial paper — the market for short-term loans backed by mortgages, credit card debt and business loans that had all but come to a standstill, helping to create a credit squeeze on Wall Street.
