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A reckless, right-wing Supreme Court has agreed with them.
We are setting ourselves up, without question, for another boom based on excessive and reckless risk-taking at the heart of the world’s financial system.
Reckless populist promises left a gaping 16%-of-GDP budget deficit.
Simply trusting the Kremlin's “goodwill" would be reckless.
Omit either a market penalty now for behavior that may become reckless or the institutional levers that give a voice to future generations, and you run grave risks – perhaps not today or tomorrow, but someday, and for the rest of your life.
It is easy to blame Obama, or the reckless Republicans, for this sorry state of affairs.
The Fed has printed new bank reserves with reckless abandon.
What many commentators failed to notice, however, is that even if, contrary to all the evidence, we were to accept Pruitt’s statement that “we do not know” whether CO2 is the primary contributor to climate change, the Trump administration’s actions would still be reckless.
Perhaps, though, Trump does not see his policy as reckless because, as he has repeatedly proclaimed, he puts “America first.”
Such exposure would help bring to an end many countries’ reckless actions.
This view holds that America’s secret war in Syria is illegal both under the US Constitution (which gives Congress the sole power to declare war) and under the United Nations Charter, and that America’s two-sided war in Syria is a cynical and reckless gamble.
But, as Trump’s erratic presidency – including his challenges to longstanding alliances and reckless nuclear posturing – starkly demonstrates, the structures we have created to preserve peace are far from foolproof.
Without a strong and internationally coordinated response to the sinking of the Cheonan, such reckless provocations are not only likely to continue, but may become more frequent.
They argue that pushing for further integration in the current political climate is reckless, and that the EU should focus on doing less, better.
The target of Economic and Monetary Union and a single currency, which was also adopted at Maastricht in 1991, is a bold, even revolutionary programme; some critics say reckless; but the fact is that the single currency will be a reality in just two months’ time.
Little wonder that fellow environmentalist Bill McKibben states that “we are engaging in a reckless drive-by drowning of much of the rest of the planet and much of the rest of creation.”
Moreover, the infrastructure investments of this period were funded by reckless and imprudent lending by public-sector banks, which often funneled resources to high-risk, politically connected borrowers.
But the danger that any conflict could escalate into a nuclear confrontation prevented reckless and dangerous behavior on both sides on more than one occasion.
Letting radical movements run their course, as some have suggested, is both reckless and dangerous, given the amount of damage they can do before they fail.
Unfortunately, the great sociologist Ralf Dahrendorf was right to conclude that, “The currency union is a grave error, a quixotic, reckless, and misguided goal, that will not unite but break up Europe.”
But the wars that followed, and the latest wars in the region – the Lebanon war of 2006 and the Gaza war of December 2008/January 2009 – do not support this reckless theory.
Then there is the exposure of banks and other financial institutions to rising losses on loans that financed reckless leveraged buy-outs (LBOs).
Their vision was both naive and reckless.
As with any ban, a market was thus created – and with it a business opportunity for well organized and environmentally reckless criminals.
As a result, savers are being punished, the cost of capital is repressed, and reckless risk taking is being encouraged in an income-constrained climate.
Yet Volkswagen’s cheating is odd, because, even – or especially – by the standard of profit maximization, it was an extraordinarily reckless gamble.
The last thing the Middle East needs is another round of reckless US foreign policy.
But in what has been a truly malignant “export” from America to Europe, the US created “garbage debt” in the form of sub-prime mortgages, and Europeans – hungry for extra yield, and as reckless as Americans – bought it.
It often encourages shortsightedness, contributes to wide disparities between the rich and the poor, and tolerates the reckless treatment of environmental capital.
But London and Frankfurt would be reckless to bank on rapid growth in their renminbi transactions.
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