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When assets are seen as less risky, their prices rise.
Some recent rises in the prices of equities, commodities, and other
risky
assets is clearly liquidity-driven.
For as long as there is strength…”Those who warn that the current government’s collapse will be a
risky
leap into the unknown are correct.
Moreover, as more European bonds are issued, this problem becomes more acute, because the existing overhang of private debt becomes increasingly
risky.
The mission therefore will have to walk the thin and
risky
line in pursuit of its robust mandate to stabilize the country.
It is only logical that banks with state-guaranteed deposits should be safe and boring, with other necessary, but
risky
activities hived off to separate companies.
Eventually, central banks will need to exit quantitative easing and zero-interest rates, putting downward pressure on
risky
assets, including commodities.
Fiscal expansion is always risky, as it adds to debt and raises dangers later.
The “Anthropocene” era, in which the main global threats come from humans rather than from nature, became especially
risky
with the mass deployment of thermonuclear weapons.
I am not in a position to follow the battle within the ECB from the outside, but what the outcome will have a major influence on the future course of events.It should not escape your attention that if the ECB succeeded in making credit available on equal terms, it would effectively mean a large-scale mutualization of rather
risky
debts.
Indeed, economic theory suggests that the interest-rate differential should be offset on average by depreciation of the currency with the higher interest rate, the differential thus reflecting the compensation required by investors to hold money in relatively
risky
currencies.
The second development was that the carry trade appeared to perform strongly when other
risky
assets also did well, and vice versa.
The Global Economy’s New AbnormalNEW YORK – Since the beginning of the year, the world economy has faced a new bout of severe financial market volatility, marked by sharply falling prices for equities and other
risky
assets.
It is no surprise that the big banks succeeded in stopping some essential reforms; what was a surprise was a provision in the US Senate’s bill that banned government-insured entities from underwriting
risky
derivatives.
Such a funding scheme is essential for promoting breakthroughs in the long run, because it encourages researchers to take on
risky
projects with fundamentally unpredictable outcomes but potentially high gains.
Expanding the demand and reducing the supply of these
risky
assets is a way of manipulating their price.
Funding agencies for academic research should adopt a similar philosophy, awarding a certain share of financing to thoughtful, unconventional proposals – those deemed risky, owing to a relatively low probability of success, but that could lead to important discoveries.
These banks have increasingly reached out to more
risky
small- and medium-sized enterprises and helped people buy their own houses and start new businesses.
If it did not contribute much to the crisis, keeping
risky
trading away from commercial banks’ deposit base may still be desirable, but not something that the financial crisis “proved” is necessary.
But, again, although derivatives trading played an important role in the crisis (AIG’s inability, without a government bailout, to honor its
risky
credit-default swaps is the best example), Glass-Steagall’s repeal did not unleash the riskiest trades in the institutions that failed.
And, if the problem is systemically
risky
derivatives trading in banks and elsewhere, then the priority given to derivatives traders over nearly every creditor ought to be curtailed.
Emerging economies inhabit a
risky
world characterized by volatile capital flows.
There is a second reason why the British situation is less
risky
than that of France.
Launching a military rescue operation would be highly
risky.
Industrialists undertook
risky
projects, over-invested, and eventually stuffed the banks with non-performing loans.
But shouldn’t the ARPA-E (or its angel investors – US taxpayers) also get some return, for its early – and
risky
– investment?
Perhaps most risky, however, is the growing political backlash against free trade, reflected in a lack of progress in recent rounds of trade liberalization and the implementation of protectionist non-tariff trade barriers.
A carbon tax can help preserve the atmosphere while also discouraging some of the most exotic and
risky
energy-exploration activities by making them unprofitable.
Inviting new members into a consensus-based alliance is always
risky.
Thus, during periods of expansion, when banks are eager to fund ever more
risky
borrowers, the reserve ratio rises, curbing potentially disruptive asset bubbles or overinvestment.
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