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But the latest results—and the reaction in after-hours trading Wednesday—show the blank check investors have written to the Facebook parent might have an expiration date after all.

The bank said in its Friday filing that Javice and her convicted colleague, Olivier Amar, have treated the bank’s agreement like a “blank check” and used it to pay personal expenses, too.

However, Bessent would be doing Argentina no favor by writing it a blank check to support an overvalued exchange rate.

Alliance, said after the meeting that he was “heartened that the city didn’t give this misadventure a blank check.”

“There are no more blank checks. Every investment must make economic sense,” Tan told employees in a memo last week.