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So it is risky to claim that the opposition will soon rout HDZ.
(Architecture has proved distinctly risky, as Prince Charles learned after launching jeremiads against modernism.)
The challenges facing US President Barack Obama as he tries to win support for risky and expensive policy options from quarrelsome Democrats and obstinate Republicans will create some tortured legislative compromises.
But it also seemed to me that a world short of risk-bearing capacity needed virtually anything that induced people to commit their money to long-term risky investments.
Most reforms that would guard against macroeconomic risk would also limit the ability of finance to persuade people to commit to long-term risky investments, and hence further lower the supply of finance willing to assume such undertakings.
As a result, placing so many eggs in one basket leaves the business of aid provision looking increasingly risky.
The idea, I guess, was that the emirate’s government would stand behind every loan, no matter how risky.
So, after championing the continuation of the hardline policy, his current strategy of negotiation is risky.
Changing the system and easing their grip on power was a risky move that could undermine their authority.
They have already been sharply criticized by Democrats as being too risky and pro-bank – which they largely are.
Once a bank had the 10% capital, it could neither be stopped from key mergers nor be determined to be systemically important and risky.
After all, the human sex drive, especially if it compels risky or self-destructive behavior, has held appeal for dramatists since the ancient Greeks, who originated the story of Achilles and his vulnerability.
While one can argue that one-off devaluation was risky – as it could have triggered a panic – gradual depreciation should have started earlier than it did.
The latter is the most risky, because it supports the creeping authoritarianism that is a sign of our times.
While the Chinese may have good reasons to prefer the status quo on the Korean Peninsula, continuing to indulge the North Korean leadership’s nuclear ambitions is a risky option.
Under the umbrella of common deposit insurance, US savings banks made a “gamble for resurrection” – borrowing excessively from their depositors and lending the money out to risky enterprises, knowing that potential profits could be paid out as dividends to shareholders while potential losses would be socialized.
In particular, banks, for which maintaining market share is crucial, cannot be expected to constrain risky lending, especially given the expectation that, if things do go wrong, the taxpayers will fund a bailout.
But this approach isn’t perfect, either, because the risky borrowers to whom lending is restricted tend to be first-time or low-income buyers.
Uncertain governments in the region think oil as a magic bullet with which to buy prosperity and social peace without hard work and risky reforms.
But any of these pipelines are economically risky, so even if Azerbaijan makes up its mind about whether to build one and where, there is no guarantee that it will make money.
Consequently, the job of receiver, though it carries strict liabilities, is highly risky in terms of reward.
The possibility of restructuring balances the interests of stakeholders and uses legal protections to help potentially risky enterprises prevent or avoid bankruptcy if a bailout is worthwhile or possible.
They start in 2006 because that seems to be the point at which some financial firms took on the risky positions that led to the crisis.
In the feverish atmosphere of political high season, it will not be easy for incumbent administrations to pursue bold but risky policies.
Short-term inter-bank loans are seemingly less risky than long-term lending.
Therefore, what makes sense for one bank (to lend short term) becomes risky for the entire world system.
Insurers must also be attentive to a wide array of possible moral hazards – perverse incentives to risky behavior – and to problems of selection bias in attracting clients.
Trump’s trade policy, however, is risky.
Giving birth was so risky that they feared for their lives.
And Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided to postpone a risky consumption-tax hike planned for next year, while also announcing supplementary budgets to increase spending and boost the household sector’s purchasing power.
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