Sentence examples for dubious security from inspiring English sources

By their nature, they generate results that are probabilistic and hence inherently fallible (see "Dubious Security", October 1st 2010).

The company, the lawyers argued, sold the dubious securities before JPMorgan bought it.

The only penalty would be $2 billion to $3 billion for the dubious securities sold by JPMorgan itself.

It intensely dislikes the label some give it of the euro area's "bad bank", a dumping-ground for dubious securities.

So basically the Fed is going to be swapping Treasuries for dubious securities, in an attempt to give the market a REALLY BIG slap in the face.

In Mr. Ferguson's case these are legion: the investment bankers who enriched themselves trading dubious securities built on shaky debt, the politicians who enabled the practice and the academic economists who provided intellectual cover.

That change now seems almost reckless, given that credit-rating firms, which were paid by the companies whose often dubious securities they evaluated, played an ignominious role in the crash.

Furthermore, the plan says very little of substance about reforming the rating agencies, whose willingness to give a seal of approval to dubious securities played an important role in creating the mess we're in.

The view of the bankers is that the financial crisis did not stem from the fact that the banks made lots of bad loans and invested in dubious securities; it was caused by accounting rules that required disclosure when the losses began to mount.

Yet while much of the commission's findings simply reiterate what many already know to be true -- government officials watched and did nothing as Wall Street took ever bigger risks -- the plight of investors possibly being duped into buying dubious securities has largely been ignored.

The S.E.C. ignored warnings when Wall Street inflated the credit bubble with dubious "synthetic" securities known as collateralized debt obligations.