Sentence examples for poisonous assets from inspiring English sources

Remember, these are the same regulators who allowed brokerage firms to increase their leverage to wildly high levels, who helped break down investor protections put in place during the Great Depression, who let big banks balloon their balance sheets with poisonous assets and who were unable to spot the decades-long fraud of Bernie Madoff.

Jia sees his country as suffering a brutal new cultural revolution of money-worship in which a cronyist elite has become super-rich in the liquidation of state assets, creating poisonous envy in the dispossessed.

He sees China as a globalised economic power player suffering a new and violent Cultural Revolution of money-worship in which a cronyist elite has become super-rich in the liquidation of state assets, creating poisonous envy in the dispossessed who hear all about others' wealth from the internet, and are supposed to gossip aspirationally about it on their mobile phones.

This asset is a bit more poisonous, somewhere in the $50,000 neighborhood, but there is a silver lining Mr. Geithner.

How poisonous?

Shitty, poisonous".

But just how poisonous is poisonous, Ross?

It looked poisonous, somehow.

"They could be poisonous.

Lead is poisonous.

Oh, humiliation is poisonous.