Sentence examples for getting the upside from inspiring English sources

"The model of the Fannie management and shareholders getting the upside and taxpayers being stuck with the downside, in the event Fannie runs into trouble, is likely to change," said Sean Egan, president of Egan-Jones Ratindependents, an indebtndent debt rating firm that does not receive payments from companies that it analyzes.

They're trying to capture the best of both worlds--give authors the illusion of status from being "picked" by a publisher, and getting the author to do most of the work, and owning the rights, and still getting the upside--all while NOT paying an advance!

When things go well, they get the upside; when things go badly, that is largely someone else's problem.

They revelled in the race to the bottom, as long as they got the upside of it.

Let's be honest: Everyone would like an arrangement in which they personally get the upside and the taxpayer gets the downside.

"They want to be able to take big risks where they get the upside and the taxpayer gets the potential downside".

Powerful people on Wall Street will get the upside when things go well; you and I get stuck with the downside.

"In the financial crisis the banks got the upside and the public got the downside," said Stephen G. Cecchetti, head of the monetary and economic department of the Bank for International Settlements, in Basel, Switzerland.

But what we have now isn't private enterprise, it's lemon socialism: banks get the upside but taxpayers bear the risks.

Highly leveraged financial institutions do not have the incentive to be careful; their executives get the upside when things go well, and the downside is someone else's problem.

The people who run global megabanks get the upside when things go well – they are paid based on their return on equity unadjusted for risk, so they prefer a lot of debt piled on top of very little equity.