The segment focused on the bad actors in the industry, who buy debt from banks for cents on the dollar.
Rusnano, a multi-billion-dollar government-owned fund, is picking up the intellectual property of failed American nanotechnology firms for cents on the dollar.
A poste r of a whale was available for $2.00, a lapel button for a $1.00 & a bumper sticker for cents 25.
Yukos "could experience 'reverse privatization,' with its prize asset being auctioned for cents on the dollar," said Steven Dashevsky, an oil analyst with Aton Bank in Moscow.
That is old enough to have rows of buttons — 10 for cents, 10 for dimes, 10 for dollars and 10 beyond that.
That is because many past-due debts are owned not by the banks that issued them, but by debt collectors who bought, for cents on the dollar, a list of names and amounts due.
AMF's current owners -- mostly vulture investors that bought the company's debt for cents on the dollar and are hardly considered natural long-term investors in the business -- are now looking to profit.
More critically, as convenience drives people to share more and more information across networks, rather than through meatspace — why back up data on a spare hard drive when you can store it in the cloud for cents on the gigabyte, or burn a movie to a disc for a friend when you can share it via Dropbox?
Around him were his fellow foot soldiers in this new marketplace — the nocturnal scavengers, the middlemen who bought the scrap for cents on the pound, the dirty horse-drawn carts bringing in more debris from more remote parts of the city.
It is not just that they are "vultures" as Argentine officials often put it, who bought the bonds for cents on the dollar after the previous default and are now holding those who accepted the restructuring (accounting for 93% of the debt) to ransom.
That water is sold for cents on the dollar to generate revenue to hire attendants to keep up the public toilets.
