Bailout
Generically, a bailout is a donation, giving financial assistance to a failing business, industry, or economy in order to save it from collapse.
A bailout most often relies on the love and kindness of a strange government's assistance (taxpayers footing the bill). The bailout of Chrysler in the 70s, and then GM in 2008, are well-known examples of taxpayers enabling a failing business time to turn around their situation. How would you guess Ford feels about that bailout, by the way?
Pundits suggested during the Great Recession that the capitalist system is based on the survival of the fittest. In that sense, strong companies succeed while weak companies fail.
Bailout is a dirty word to many (especially those who work hard to build a better life and pay taxes). Those of that opinion are prone to exclaim "Let ‘em fail if they can't make money!"
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Finance: What is Disinvestment?3 Views
finance a la shmoop what is disinvestment? all right you got a couple
of choices disinvestment dat-investment and but disinvestment refers to the [Man walks through door]
process of a well a kind of whiny financial boycott like you think it
comes out of Yale or something it's a common thing among university students [Boy studying in library]
who are high on intellectual horsepower and low on self-awareness or how the
world actually works like the little rich kid who complains to Daddy about
the underpaid workers in his shirt factory as the kid drives away that [Boy driving sports car]
shiny new convertible BMW with the you know souped-up stereo set yeah that's
kind of what it's like well students often protest universities investing in
things like tobacco and oil and types of technology companies and that's really
kind of funny and sad because you know students late teenagers really have tons
of professional investment experience and life experiences and they've seen
lots of market cycles and they really know what they're doing when it comes to
the long cycles of the stock market and or they're advised by professors who [Woman working on laptop]
really have risked their own capital to build a big oh wait there none of that
so yeah that's the funny part and the sad part is that well for better or
worse over time those industries that they want to boycott for their school's
endowment which then pays for scholarships for underprivileged kids
have traditionally been really good industries to invest in like they've had
good investment returns yeah like technology come on give me a break just
goes up right so when the students push the university to sell its point zero
zero zero one percent ownership of their stake in whatever company well then the
university loses those good investment gains and that endowment money that was [Money vanishes from vault]
supposed to be earmarked for scholarships for the underprivileged not
the children of rich daddies in you know BMWs while that money just isn't there
just goes away so who did all that disinvestment hurt well students five
ten twenty years later who actually needed the scholarship money and didn't
get it but at least the boycott really affected how Chevron drilled for oil there
right [Chevron drills hole into sea bed]
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