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- noun Plural form of
financer .
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Examples
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Either subsidize the borrowers, so that they can stay in their houses, which bails out the financers; or let the foreclosure process play out, which will give the financiers the losses they deserve.
Mortgages, Securities, and Bailouts, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Somehow, people like former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan and his sidekick and successor Ben Bernanke thought everything was fine as the Wall Street financers made billions selling junk mortgage and derivative instruments around the world.
Dean Baker: President Obama's Big Deal: Cuts for Social Security, but No Taxes for Wall Street Dean Baker 2011
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The first time I heard about this the Coen Brothers did this where they shoot the trailer for a movie first without ever having made the movie in hopes to entice the financers.
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They don't tend to learn the lessons of past self-financers, and they don't tend to recognize their own deficiencies.
Money doesn't buy many wins for self-funded candidates Dan Eggen 2010
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The next step will be an email campaign to advertisers in the magazine who are the other major financers of this site.
Home Stretch 2009
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Somehow, people like former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan and his sidekick and successor Ben Bernanke thought everything was fine as the Wall Street financers made billions selling junk mortgage and derivative instruments around the world.
Dean Baker: President Obama's Big Deal: Cuts for Social Security, but No Taxes for Wall Street Dean Baker 2011
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We recognise the limits of what voluntary principles can achieve, but believe they will help nudge development financers towards better practices.
Busan conference offers chance to tackle aid effectiveness | Jonathan Glennie 2011
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Mortgage Debt Strengthens After Fannie-Freddie Pitch Agency mortgage-backed securities rose in price after the Obama administration proposed to phase out government-owned mortgage financers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Treasury Prices Gain Min Zeng 2011
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The next step will be an email campaign to advertisers in the magazine who are the other major financers of this site.
Home Stretch 2009
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Oversight and limits: For the first time, there will be higher capital, leverage and liquidity standards on the biggest, riskiest financial firms, as well as bank-like oversight for large "shadow bank" financial companies like AIG and the mortgage financers that were at the center of the crisis.
Chris Bowers: Why We Must Pass the Wall Street Reform Bill Chris Bowers 2010
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