Obama s Burmese Gamble

Europe s Historic Gamble

Europe s High Risk Gamble

Officially, I don't gamble but ...

Do you like to gamble?

If you gamble on the stock market, you are an investor... If you gamble on the derivatives market, you are a trader... If you gamble at the casino, you are a loser... Morality?

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Proctor and Gamble knows this, right?

Mr. Winston Griffin Proctor Gamble (Switzerland)

So, if I have studied the poker. I like to gamble.

So it had been a huge gamble, but it had paid off.

Mr. Peter R. White, Associate Director for Corporate Sustainable Development, Procter Gamble

After Tom lost his job, he started to gamble to cope with his depression.

The whole model of being Proctor and Gamble is always about average products for average people.

The gamble has been that a solid, durable recovery would enable banks and households to rebuild their balance sheets quickly enough to avoid the need for additional bailouts. But, so far, that gamble isn t working as well or as rapidly as hoped.

She was like, You are not quitting, because I took a gamble on you, and you're staying.

The panellist from Procter Gamble stressed the importance of aligning the business case for entering a developing country with its development needs.

Suppose you had placed a long term bet on financial equities in 1900, along with a short bet on general equities in effect a gamble on whether the UK financial sector would outperform the market. For the first 85 years, this would have been a very uninteresting gamble, generating an average return of only around 2 a year.

We then ask them, How powerful do you feel? on a series of items, and then we give them an opportunity to gamble, and then we take another saliva sample.

So this is what we find. Risk tolerance, which is the gambling, what we find is that when you're in the high power pose condition, 86 percent of you will gamble.

Is he gambling on the chance of a Republican presidency in 2016? If so, he got the applause but, given the current polls, the latter motive would be quite a gamble.

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan takes the prize for the most extreme rhetoric, claiming that not curbing global warming is a terrible gamble with the future of the planet and with life itself.

Likewise, the multinational consumer goods company Procter and Gamble reported 52 billion in sales of sustainable innovation products from 2007 to 2012. That is roughly 11 of the company s total sales over that period.

As former Procter amp Gamble CEO and current US Secretary of Veterans Affairs Bob McDonald is fond of saying, leaders have a responsibility to make sure that their organization can do well and do good.

The banks creditors or governments ultimately would bear any losses. The mutual interaction between the incentive to minimize equity capital and the incentive to gamble in order to exploit the upside risks caused America s crisis.

That is a big gamble, given that the UK now appears to be shuffling towards the EU exit. Certainly, the new status quo looks unsustainable, with 26 countries moving towards greater integration while the 27th remains aloof.

We have to figure out why we keep letting this happen, because we are in the midst of what may be our highest stakes gamble of all deciding what to do, or not to do, about climate change.

Cameron s gamble is that voters do not mind Poles or Lithuanians operating JCB s machines on construction sites all over the United Kingdom. What they mind is people immigrating to the UK to take advantage of its welfare benefits.

There is no market discipline. The too big to be restructured banks know that they can gamble with impunity and, with the Federal Reserve making funds available at near zero interest rates, there are ample funds to do so.

Holding gold can also make sense for middle class and poor households in countries for example, China and India that significantly limit access to other financial investments. For most others, gold is just another gamble that one can make.

A bank with thin margins and limited liability does not have much to lose, and will tend to gamble a tendency that is exacerbated by deposit insurance and too big to fail policies. The result will be more incentives to assume risk.

Despite all this, the marriage has taken place, with the two parties smart, attractive, and socially similar leaders David Cameron and Nick Clegg taking a bold gamble on their ability to get this new show on the road and to keep it there.

In today's world, balancing school, work, kids and more, most of us can only hope for the recommended eight hours of sleep. Examining the science behind our body's internal clock, Jessa Gamble reveals the surprising and substantial program of rest we should be observing.

And algorithmic trading evolved in part because institutional traders have the same problems that the United States Air Force had, which is that they're moving these positions whether it's Proctor Gamble or Accenture, whatever they're moving a million shares of something through the market.

If there is one thing BP's watery improv act made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back up plan, without an exit strategy.

Throwing money at banks hasn t helped homeowners foreclosures continue to increase. Letting AIG fail might have hurt some systemically important institutions, but dealing with that would have been better than to gamble upwards of 150 billion and hope that some of it might stick where it is important.

To be sure, Cameron s speech was a more statesmanlike gamble than many even within his own government had anticipated. Some of his remarks in recent weeks had suggested that he might reject outright the free movement of EU citizens one of the union s founding principles and dare other European governments to oppose him.

This, too, would seem to be a gamble many Israelis, however worried they might be about an Iranian nuclear bomb, have been highly critical of Netanyahu's provocation of Obama, and of many Jewish Democrats. Two former Mossad directors joined a chorus of Israelis in arguing that he should no longer be prime minister.

The assumption here unstated and highly questionable is that the US will be able to sell an unlimited amount of government debt at low interest rates for the foreseeable future. There is no other country in the world where fiscal conservatives would want to be associated with such a high stakes gamble.

But as the storm clouds gather in the coming year, the political coalition that put Bush in power will stifle progress in undoing the fiscal mess. Bush s gamble was a loser from the start, generating costly results mainly for the US, but for the rest of the world, too for years to come.

For example, the United Kingdom s Independent Commission on Banking (ICB) has proposed ring fencing retail activities from investment banking activities in separately capitalized divisions of a bank holding company. This is a compromise aimed at minimizing the incentive to gamble with public insurance while allowing some economies of scale for banking activities.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy don t want to gamble away their own political futures. Merkel will play the central role in deciding how Europe positions itself, not only because she is the leader of the EU s largest economy, but also because she wants to be re elected in September.

Indeed, pay arrangements were a major contributing factor to the excessive risk taking by financial institutions that helped bring about the financial crisis. By rewarding executives for risky behavior, and by insulating them from some of the adverse consequences of that behavior, pay arrangements for financial sector bosses produced perverse incentives, encouraging them to gamble.

BERKELEY Before 2008, I taught my students that the United States was a flexible economy. It had employers who were willing to gamble and hire when they saw unemployed workers who would be productive and it had workers who were willing to move to opportunity, or to try something new in order to get a job.

In these circumstances, with China s financial system too fragile to withstand external shocks, and the global economy mired in turmoil, the PBOC would be unwise to gamble on the ability of rapid capital account liberalization to generate a healthier and more robust financial system. On the contrary, policymakers should tread carefully in their pursuit of financial liberalization.