How to Use insolvent in a Sentence
insolvent
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In a country once billed as the Switzerland of the Middle East, the banks are largely insolvent.
— Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2021 -
Their price collapsed, and, in a matter of hours, FTX was insolvent.
— Max Chafkin, Bloomberg.com, 13 Dec. 2022 -
The bailout is the largest to date under a 2021 package for near-insolvent retirement plans.
— Heather Gillers, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2022 -
Before the act passed, more than 200 pension plans were on pace to become insolvent in the near term, according to the White House.
— Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2022 -
Yes, today's 2,315 insolvent banks can luck out on the market.
— Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023 -
Caught in the midst of the currency storm, banks became insolvent, and the economy collapsed.
— Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 24 Sep. 2021 -
In fact, the American taxpayer will bear the cost of union plans that were insolvent long before the pandemic.
— Howard B. Adler and Alex J. Pollock, WSJ, 11 July 2022 -
Regulators hoped insolvent S&Ls could grow their way out of trouble, avoiding the need for a bailout.
— James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 4 May 2022 -
The Medicare hospital trust fund is scheduled to be insolvent in 2026.
— The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2022 -
In 2017, the system was declared insolvent and placed in receivership.
— Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2020 -
That does not mean those banks are doomed — insolvent lenders can survive if they are given time to recover and work through their losses.
— Stacy Cowley, New York Times, 1 May 2023 -
Now, those plans are projected to remain insolvent through at least 2051.
— Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2022 -
McCahey wasn’t present for the meeting, but his lawyer said the company’s accounts had all been frozen and the business was insolvent.
— Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022 -
Eventually, the spokesman said, the theater, which is not insolvent, hoped to return to producing its own work.
— Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2022 -
Dozens of carriers have stopped writing business or gone insolvent in those states.
— Brianna Sacks, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2023 -
The Fed would reject an insolvent bank from borrowing, but the program has long carried a stigma that to need the discount window is a sign of dire trouble.
— David Benoit, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2023 -
Chief among them was Central States, which was expected to become insolvent by 2026.
— Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 8 Dec. 2022 -
The company became insolvent in 2019 and sold its assets after funds promised by a Chinese investor failed to come through.
— Sarah McBride, Bloomberg.com, 30 Mar. 2022 -
As the Federal Reserve raised rates, funding costs rose and many thrifts became insolvent.
— Charles W. Calomiris and Phil Gramm, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2023 -
If the borrower becomes insolvent or cannot otherwise repay the loan, the lender can foreclose on the loan and then sell the property to recoup their money.
— Megan Micco, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021 -
Six of those companies were declared insolvent this year, even before Ian.
— Chris Isidore, CNN, 30 Sep. 2022 -
Terms of use for Celsius specify that the legal status of users’ crypto holdings will be unclear if the firm were to become insolvent.
— Paul Kiernan, WSJ, 17 June 2022 -
But only because most of Russia’s banks over the years have been folded and rendered insolvent, and a danger to the Russian financial system.
— Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023 -
There was another group that came to testify about how the fund that pays the garment workers when they don’t get paid [by their employer] was pretty much insolvent.
— Julia Gall, Marie Claire, 12 Sep. 2021 -
Investors are often only willing to provide such a loan in exchange for a high-ranking claim to the insolvent company’s assets in the event of default.
— Jeremy Hill, Bloomberg.com, 16 Aug. 2022 -
But Social Security is not some Ponzi scheme that is going to be insolvent anytime soon.
— Ben Carlson, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2021 -
Bank owners and managers who know their business is insolvent—as appeared to be the case with SVB—essentially know they won’t be allowed to fail by the government.
— Will Daniel, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2023 -
Because such a clause doesn't kick in until the debtor is insolvent or bankrupt, the first element will be easily satisfied.
— Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2021 -
The new financial obligations were intended to act as a safety net for taxpayers in the event oil and gas companies become insolvent and cannot pay to plug wells.
— Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023 -
Still, other companies have gone insolvent due to the increasing cost of claims, leaving a market with fewer options for residents to choose from.
— Kelly Livingston, ABC News, 17 Nov. 2023
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