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It would have been very dangerous to expose the federal government to this danger, given that the operation was rightly perceived at the outset as extremely
risky.
If their
risky
bets pay off, their stockholders benefit considerably, as do the banks’ CEOs and senior managers, who are heavily compensated in bank stock.
Several solutions to this problem have been proposed, and some – such as increased capital requirements and restrictions on
risky
investments – are headed toward implementation.
They also hope that the guarantees would motivate the bondholders to monitor banks’ activities and pressure bank managers to limit their
risky
operations.
A more aggressive approach would compensate bankers with the same bonds that guarantee their institutions’ short-term, volatile, and
risky
debts.
As a result, bank managers would have a personal financial stake in ensuring that the
risky
obligations do not blow up, as they did during the 2007-2008 financial crisis.
This incentive-based regulation could bolster economic stability more effectively than expecting regulators to keep pace with banks’
risky
activities.
It is always
risky
to speculate about hidden motives; nevertheless, systematic disparagement of Israeli society and culture undoubtedly encourages the sense that anti-Semitism, too, is a permitted prejudice.
People everywhere, consumers and investors alike, are canceling spending plans, because the world economy seems very
risky
right now.
The “Big Bang” of 1986, which de-regulated financial services, made
risky
behavior in the City the norm.
The arrangement that Mody proposes is one whereby states decide by themselves which fiscal policy they prefer and default if they become insolvent; banks know that public debt is
risky
and behave accordingly; and governments force banks to shrink by refusing to stand behind them and socialize their losses.
As the Paris agreement recognizes, many scientists believe that warming above 1.5ºC is
risky
and that adaptation to it will be extremely expensive, particularly for developing countries and island states.
Rising Uncertainties in the U.S. EconomyCAMBRIDGE: America’s economy is entering a
risky
phase.
George W. Bush’s proposals for a massive tax cut are
risky
– gambling on large future budget surpluses that might never appear, and gambling that a sharp tax cut won’t trigger a jump in interest rates.
Today, there are seven sources of potential global tail risk, and the global economy is moving from an anemic expansion (positive growth that accelerates) to a slowdown (positive growth that decelerates), which will lead to further reduction in the price of
risky
assets (equities, commodities, credit) worldwide.
But repeated eruptions from some of the seven sources of global tail risk will make the rest of this year – unlike the previous seven – a bad one for
risky
assets and anemic for global growth.
No one predicted this boom, so predicting its end is
risky.
If the problem is the moral hazard implied by being too big to fail, the solution is not to restrict pay, but to eliminate the hazard by forcing shareholders to issue more equity or lose their stock when banks’ debt starts to become
risky.
Using the SASB’s proposed standards for 45 industries, as well as other metrics, a new study – the most definitive so far – has found that companies that perform well on material sustainability factors have better operational performance, are less risky, and earn significantly higher shareholder returns than companies that perform poorly.
The first security, the ESBies, would be composed of the senior tranche of the bond portfolio, and would serve as the “safe asset,” while the second,
risky
security would be sold to investors in the market.
Meanwhile, the continuing problems at European banks are a stark reminder that operating highly leveraged, thinly capitalized firms is incredibly
risky.
But that painful and
risky
process will have to be launched eventually, and it will be better served by Obama’s brand of caution than by the tough talk of his critics.
Of this amount, around $2 billion was received by the five best-paid individuals, who were also central to creating the highly
risky
asset structures that brought the financial system to the edge of the abyss: Sandy Weil (built Citigroup, which blew up shortly after he left);Hank Paulson (greatly expanded Goldman Sachs, lobbied for allowing more leverage in investment banks, then moved to the US Treasury and helped save them);Angelo Mozilo (built Countrywide, a central player in irresponsible mortgage lending);Dick Fuld (ran Lehman Brothers into the ground); and Jimmy Cayne (ran Bear Stearns into the ground).
The work of Duke neuroscientists Scott Huettel and Michael Platt has shown, through functional magnetic resonance imaging experiments, that “decision making under ambiguity does not represent a special, more complex case of
risky
decision making; instead, these two forms of uncertainty are supported by distinct mechanisms.”
But the consequences of replacing vigilance with indifference regarding polio are too
risky
in today’s world.
Putin may not be a grand strategist, and he certainly wouldn’t mind a buffoon in the White House; but he knows an overly
risky
bet when he sees one.
With most credit pipelines already partly blocked, the shortage of corporate credit will become more severe as regulators finally force banks to embark on a proper mobilization of prudential capital and shrink balance sheets to less
risky
levels.
The added security offered by additional offspring means that loosening the one-child policy will probably lead parents to save less on their own, and possibly even to make the kind of
risky
investments that would be unwise for only-child families.
A low-carbon society is not a crisis scenario, but rather the realistic vision of liberation from the path of expensive and
risky
over-development.
The qualitative parallels are obvious: banks using off-balance loans to finance highly
risky
ventures, exotic new financial instruments, and excessive exuberance over the promise of new markets.
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