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Faced with little regulatory restraint, banks overdosed on risky loans.
In 1992, Sweden’s central bank, the Riksbank, allowed private bank equity holders to be wiped out, but it rescued depositors and creditors by buying up risky assets of failing institutions.
But if bankers know that they will be bailed out in bad times, they have an incentive to make risky loans.
In 2007, Lehman Brothers, AIG, and most other players in the financial markets were earning huge returns by trading derivatives backed by very risky mortgages.
Investments were not simply bad, but unacceptably risky.
Even now, many of the losses that bankers should have faced are being shouldered by the public sector, including through various forms of direct support and the extraordinary and risky actions of the European Central Bank.
In these circumstances, lending is risky, and banks have neither the appetite nor ability to lend, particularly to SMEs (which typically generate the highest number of jobs).
Even in extremely fragile and risky cases, such as Argentina, Venezuela, and Ukraine, political and economic conditions have become so bad that – short of becoming failed states – the situation can only get better.
Critics present nuclear disarmament as unrealistic at best, and a risky utopian dream at worst.
As I, along with George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger, Sam Nunn, and others, pointed out five years ago, nuclear deterrence becomes less reliable and more risky as the number of nuclear-armed states increases.
This supports the view that investments in SMEs take as much – if not more – time to return a profit than less risky investments with a wider scope.
Thus, domestic credit growth began to decelerate only in August 2011, when the escalation of the eurozone crisis made global investors more wary of risky emerging markets.
By moving away from the renminbi peg to the US dollar – an undoubtedly risky move – China demonstrated its willingness to allow market forces to establish the exchange rate in the long term.
Keeping politics out of government as much as possible is a risky strategy.
Will it lead to a persistent increase in risky assets, especially in US and other global equity markets?
Many now argue that QE3’s effect on risky assets should be as powerful, if not more so, than that of QE1, QE2, and “Operation Twist,” the Fed’s earlier bond-purchase program.
Indeed, in this case, not talking amounts to having no strategy at all – a seriously risky proposition.
Therefore, those wanting to stop the slide into an unnecessary and risky war must make their own argument about credibility.
To criticize anticorruption campaigns is risky, because words can be twisted to imply indifference.
When yields on risky bonds decline toward those on safe assets, it is fair to conclude, he argues, that someone is taking on excessive risk.
She has long known that fixing the monetary union would require her to issue a politically risky call for financial sacrifice by Germans.
The call was risky, because the former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the man who single-handedly carried the euro across the finish line, had promised that no sacrifice would be required.
But Spahn’s apparent bet that Trump-style politics will take hold in Germany is risky, given the extent to which Berlin, of all places, has witnessed the tragedies of identity politics.
A less risky and time-tested route for stimulating demand would be a significant increase in public infrastructure investment funded by government debt.
This is a risky assumption, because it implies that no European government will ever fail to repay the bond in full, with all interest due, and on time.
The latter approach held that efforts to roll back Communism in the short run were too risky, given the Soviet nuclear arsenal, and that the United States and the West should content themselves with limiting the spread of Soviet power and influence.
The volatile stock market and the renminbi’s “surprise” depreciation are signs of imminent economic collapse, according to this view, as risky investments and high levels of government debt put the brakes on decades of turbo-charged output growth.
The Necessity of Universal Health CareThe biggest health challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean isn’t a single disease or condition, and it won’t be solved by aiming money at a single risky behavior.
Local governments are saddled with a mountain of debt and wasted investments, banks accumulate risky loans, and farmers lose their land.
With growth anemic in most advanced economies, the rally in risky assets that began in the second half of 2012 has not been driven by improved fundamentals, but rather by fresh rounds of unconventional monetary policy.
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