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But the more troubling risks from air pollution arise from chronic exposure.
Besides skipping town, one can mitigate at least some of the risks by limiting one’s exposure on particularly hazardous days.
Destabilized by too much short-term debt and too much exposure to risky, overvalued, low-quality mortgage-backed securities, they tripped and fell over it.
What stories are investors far from America now telling one another to justify continuing to add to their exposure to the risk of dollar depreciation?
Spain’s financial exposure to Portugal and its housing-led recession don’t help matters.
In Greece, bad loans issued by French and German banks were moved onto the public books, transferring the exposure not only to European taxpayers, but to the entire membership of the IMF.
China no doubt views the emergence of renminbi-denominated oil contracts as a means for Chinese companies to buy oil and gas in their own currency, thereby avoiding exposure to foreign currency fluctuations and firing a shot across the bow of US dollar supremacy.
Exposure to Mexican debt alone represented some 90% of the capitalization of major US banks.
Major European banks – in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France – have, like their 1980’s predecessors, built up a gigantic exposure to what they erroneously thought was safe debt.
The GFSR confidently noted that “stress tests conducted by investment banks show that, even under scenarios of nationwide house price declines that are historically unprecedented, most investors with exposure to subprime mortgages through securitized structures will not face losses.”
Although the trial has been delayed, the exposure has given the Myrna Mack Foundation and other civic efforts the time to propose ways to modernize and democratize the justice system.
Requiring managers to apprise investors of downside exposure would help even more.
Elsewhere among the major advanced economies, the United Kingdom is double dipping, as front-loaded fiscal consolidation and eurozone exposure undermine growth.
He concluded that “not only is there no scientific evidence that we need to drink that much, but the recommendation could be harmful, both in precipitating potentially dangerous hyponatremia and exposure to pollutants and also in making many people feel guilty for not drinking enough.”
As investors reduce their exposure to the eurozone periphery’s sovereigns, banks, and corporations, both flow and stock imbalances will need to be financed.
Such exposure would help bring to an end many countries’ reckless actions.
Despite a flood of Jacobin propaganda from revolutionary France, British parliamentarians remained committed to the idea that freedom of speech and the exposure of ideas to open debate would serve Britain best.
If consumers knew to collect and separate household plastics based on their number, when available, the resulting boost to recycling efforts would demonstrate to government and industry the viability of a more sustainable approach, reduce exposure to rising oil prices, and support growing global demand for plastics.
Germany has the biggest exposure by far among the countries rescuing the eurozone’s crisis-stricken countries, and thus helps to mitigate austerity more than any other country.
Within the so-called G-10 developed economies, Australia has the largest direct exposure to Japan – the destination of about 19% of its total exports.
Something similar might have to be done for the Spanish banking system’s exposure to the local housing market.
Losing on a long position reduces one’s risk exposure, while losing on a short position increases it, so one can be more patient being long and wrong than being short and wrong.
These types of investments continue to be beneficial throughout a worker’s life, as exposure to new skills and knowledge allows him or her to adapt to an evolving technological and business environment.
They argued that the skills needed in today’s global marketplace can only be developed through exposure to a wide diversity of people.
Through all of this, governments have strengthened bank regulation only slightly, leaving key issues like liquidity creation, exposure to derivatives, and tax avoidance largely unaddressed.
These coercive and often violent encounters increase women’s risk of exposure to HIV.
Moreover, given the prevailing assumption that public debt was risk-free, banks were not bound by the usual rules against “large exposures”: they could accumulate as much exposure to any one government as they wanted.
In these circumstances, postponing the restructuring only perpetuates distrust of European banks with opaque sovereign exposures, and of financial markets in general – in much the same way that uncertainty about exposure to collateralized debt obligations led to a confidence crisis in late 2008.
On top of that, there is the possibility of health-care costs resulting from exposure to radioactivity.
But six decades of independence have wrought significant change, as exposure to British practices has faded and India’s natural boisterousness has reasserted itself.
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