Refloat

Hopefully the FDIC is ready to dive in and remove the remaining toxic mortgage assets of any failing banks, along with their managements, and then refloat the institutions. ❋ Andy Kessler (2011)

Britain's economy has stalled, anger at public spending cuts is mounting and the Prime Minister is desperately trying to refloat the foundering Big Society, the coalition government's one big idea. ❋ Matthew Bishop (2011)

Then you could do the bailout and refloat the bank to private investors. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nor does it lie in endlessly easy Fed policy in a misguided attempt to refloat the housing bubble or revive the financial boom. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A container ship is grounded and leaking oil into New Zealand's pristine Bay of Plenty, with international crews scrambling to limit the environmental damage and refloat the vessel before it breaks up. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Attempts to refloat the whales began on Friday night. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Except when the boats are all sunken or propped up on dry land for repair, and if there is no real tide in these protected waters then better fix the boats so that they sit properly as we cannot wait for the tide to go down to try to refloat them once they have sunk. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mr. Musk himself especially needs an IPO to refloat his lifestyle by converting some of his Tesla stake to cash. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Last week, the SPLC released another report profiling 40 key leaders of the resurgent Patriots and their enablers -- people like U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), who has suggested that Obama is building political reeducation camps for our children, and Fox News host Glenn Beck, who helped refloat conspiracy theories about secret government concentration camps and has called Obama an anti-white racist who is comparable to Hitler. ❋ Mark Potok (2010)

This would lower the cost of labor, making them competitive again (remember Asia after 1997-'98) while also inflating asset prices and helping to refloat borrowers who are underwater on their mortgages and other debts. ❋ Simon Johnson (2010)

We have 20 knot winds and 1.5 to 2 meter (5 to 7 foot) swells, so it is not possible to refloat them at Spirits Bay. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So to refloat the boat business, the Florida House voted last Wednesday to cap the boat sales tax at $18,000. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Then move the toxic debt onto the balance sheets of the FDIC and the Fed, and refloat the banks with fresh capital to open on Monday morning. ❋ Andy Kessler (2010)

They dragged their tubes out on the shoals and paid a kid with a truck to drive them upstream so they could refloat the river. ❋ James Lee Burke (2009)

Dave: You [keen] to go to the bar after work? Mike: No, but you sound pretty keen! Dave: [I'm dying] to refloat my kidney - I haven't had a beer in [a couple of] weeks. ❋ Buckonz (2009)