JPMorgan would like to be done with the bad bet that has resulted in at least $3 billion in losses already, but senior executives argue it is a delicate process, especially as traders and hedge funds on the opposite side of the trade seize on the fact that JPMorgan is under pressure to exit the position.
While they oppose and abhor existing government, or what remains of it, such movements are nevertheless still parasitic on the failing state, exploiting its resources, levying taxes on its trade, seizing its arms or, as in Iraq, happily permitting the government to pay wages and pensions to citizens now in Isis territory.
The failure of Lehman Brothers turned the rich world's credit crunch into a global calamity, as the international banking system came close to collapse and even the most basic functions of finance, such as trade credit, seized up.
The business secretary's attempt to defend the twin concepts of free enterprise and free trade was seized on as inappropriate because the British steel industry has been placed under great duress by cheap imports from China.
Working on the standard police estimate that just 10% of illicit trade is seized, then somewhere in the region of 10,000 tigers were killed primarily for China's consumers in this period.
Illegally traded orchids seized by customs are taken care of by New York Botanical Garden's CITES rescue centre programme.
In October 2008, Iceland temporarily suspended stock trading and seized Kaupthing, the country's largest bank, as its banking system collapsed and plunged the country into bankruptcy.
The EIA report called on Laos to immediately set up a task force to tackle the trade and seize all illegal products in the Special Economic Zone.
But it's not just citizens, unions and NGOs who are concerned about the way trade deals seize control from democratic governments and put it into the hands of private corporations.
Trade would seize up, residents would lose access to their savings and Greece's ability to continue using the euro would fall into serious doubt.
Regulators said the firms had engaged in various types of "front-running," which involves trading ahead of customer orders or timing their own trades to seize profits.
