But one promise that Cameron made last Wednesday involved a guarantee of money above and beyond its bid.
Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel said the plan, which includes the government, the central bank and major Austrian commercial banks and insurance companies, involved a guarantee for up to 900 million euros ($1.13 billion) of the debts owed by Bawag, formally the Bank für Arbeit und Wirtschaft.
Ultimately this would involve a United Nations treaty guaranteeing the rights and protections of the mentally disabled, similar to the 1987 convention against torture or the conventions in the 1980's on the rights of women and children.
When the loans were first sold, the banks agreed to buy back any that turned out to involve fraud, a guarantee they made to protect bond insurers.
The second, which involves a partial federal guarantee, raises similar cost and access problems.
The price-matching is not one that involves a price drop guarantee, however.
The killer stat, when it comes to London, is that just 0.6% of all housing transactions funded by mortgages involved a Help to Buy government guarantee.
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"When you can remove nearly all the risk involved and guarantee yourself a profit, it's not a bad business decision," said Darwyn Bach, a farmer in St. Leo, Minn., who said that he is guaranteed about $1,000 an acre in revenue before he puts a single seed in the ground because of crop insurance.
Citi's system, which involves guaranteeing a range of prices in Latin American sovereign debt to clients for brief intervals 15-200 misutesaysis, says one fixed-income manager, just short of useless because sovereigns are one of the areas in the bond market where liquidity is not a problem.
