J.P. Morgan needs to build one, and must be more careful about overextending itself.Some American houses, such as J.P. Morgan, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs, invest their own money in private equity deals, which should pay well so long as the public markets eventually recover.
A further suspension, of up to 20 years, may come if they find him guilty of overextending his powers during his attempt, in 2008, to investigate the disappearance of 113,000 of Franco's victims.
So Standard has shifted its focus to deploying capital across Africa, where it has a strong local presence and can see off competition from both global investment banks and newly emerging home-grown ones.It may be tempting to dismiss Standard Bank's experience in far-flung markets as the price of an upstart emerging-market bank overextending itself.
Is it more progressive to open the door to refugees and risk overextending the welfare state, or to close the door and leave them to languish in danger zones?
Upstart firms can poach the incumbents' best customers, threatening their viability but at the same time overextending themselves.
We keep buying and spending and overextending and forgiving debts; we keep forgetting how we came to accumulate them; we can't seem to remember that bad times follow good; we lack the fortitude supplied by a bracing history.
In film school, he went through this period — and I think it mirrors what a lot of us do — of aggressively aiming at being an adult and overextending himself in that direction, entering into a sort of sophomoric stage of life.
But even then the family was overextending itself.
It was clear that he was unsure exactly where the boundaries lay between celebrity and civilian, and he was afraid of accidentally overextending himself.
Kevin Stayton, the Brooklyn Museum's chief curator, said it was an effort, at a time of strained budgets, to make sure that "we're not overextending ourselves".
As the fighting nears Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city, rebel leaders, reacting to criticism of their battlefield performance, have contended that they may still have a chance: Colonel Qaddafi's forces, they contend, are overextending their lines as they push rebels back and might be running short of fuel.
