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Since early August, Russia has spent nearly $125 billion of its foreign reserves, $57.5 billion of that on backstopping the ruble.

On top of backstopping the Devils to those accomplishments, Brodeur has claimed 669 wins — the most in N.H.L. history — and three Vezina Trophies.

Last spring, he even stopped 96 of 100 shots for Kölner Haie (Cologne Sharks) in a six-overtime playoff game — the second-longest game in hockey history — and went on to backstop the Sharks to the league final.

He went on to backstop the Canadiens through the seven-game final against Chicago, winning the Stanley Cup title with perhaps the most famous save in history: a darting leg-pad stop on Jim Pappin with less than four minutes to play.

He went on to backstop Boston College to a record-setting sixth Lamoriello Trophy in team history as Hockey East champions.

Banks in the future will probably have loads more capital and cash, but will still ultimately rely on the state to backstop their funding.

Montreal will count on Carey Price to backstop them as well under pressure as he did Team Canada at the Olympics, but Price (while sometimes carrying the squad) is always better when he seems confident in what's happening in front of him.

They are backstopping warranties on solar panels, helping start-up companies with short track records offer multidecade guarantees on their products and win over skeptical customers and project financiers.

On Tuesday, they agreed to backstop Dexia's finances and pushed to restructure the bank.

Instead of tackling structural problems, much of the endless chatter about the common currency centers on financial engineering: rescue funds, backstopping banks, printing money and the like.

For years the big banks have relied on taxpayer-funded deposit insurance to backstop their lucrative derivative businesses.