Similarly, special procedures, as independent experts, could make statements on issues that might be too risky for United Nations agencies, particularly country teams, to make.

Risky Advice

America s Risky Recovery

The Risky Rich

Moreover, the boom resulted in a number of financial innovations, which may have been good ideas intrinsically, but which were sometimes applied too aggressively, given the risk of falling prices. Mortgage backed securities were urged onto investors for whom they were too risky.

This is a little risky.

This is risky stuff indeed.

I don't want to do anything risky.

Destabilized by too much short term debt and too much exposure to risky, overvalued, low quality mortgage backed securities, they tripped and fell over it. So regulators have focused on command and control orders to financial firms to increase their equity, and to reduce the riskiness of their investments.

They actually tend to go a little risky.

Banks charge higher interest on loans to risky customers.

the guy on the right is the risky loss.

And of course risk. I think architecture should be risky.

The guy on the right is actually a risky bonus.

But predicting how nature works is a very risky game.

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. The problem, then, is how to determine exactly when risk premiums are too low.

Banks that grant risky loans on too little equity illustrate the analytical value of homo economicus particularly clearly. Their profits are privatized, but any losses exceeding their equity are dumped on their creditors, or, even better for them, on the taxpayers.

If you still find yourself there, stop the desire to deleverage by having the Treasury guarantee risky assets, or issue safe ones, in order to raise the quality of debt in the market this, too, will make holding debt more attractive.

So, notice that, as more people join in, it's less risky.

So it's a chance to get more, but it's pretty risky.

They actually become more risky depending on how the experimenters started.

Ever since 1825, central banks standard response in such situations except during the Great Depression of the 1930 s has been the same raise and support the prices of risky financial assets, and prevent financial markets from sending a signal to the real economy to shut down risky enterprises and eschew risky investments.

And Friday night we're trying to decide between risky sex or happiness.

Delivering emergency humanitarian assistance was also risky, and required sufficient legal protection.

3. If you still find yourself there, stop the desire to deleverage by having the Treasury guarantee risky assets, or issue safe ones, in order to raise the quality of debt in the market this, too, will make holding debt more attractive.

According to simple economic models, when the money market is in full prosperity equilibrium, the debt market is too. But in the real world, it might have been more effective for governments to buy back risky debts and induce lenders to write off losses.

This crash in prices of risky financial assets would not overly concern the rest of us were it not for the havoc that it has wrought on the price system, which is sending a peculiar message to the real economy. The price system is saying shut down risky production activities and don t undertake any new activities that might be risky.

Of course, reconciling the fundamental misalignment of interests in China will not be easy not least because interest groups will not discuss, much less oppose, reforms in an open and transparent manner. Instead, they argue that the reforms are too risky or purge their substantive provisions.

It's risky and it's going to be one hell of a ride better than Disney.

Businesses can have blind spots, too and they can be equally costly, causing companies to overinvest in risky ventures or fail to take advantage of emerging opportunities. Successful leaders are careful to identify their company s blind spots and introduce mechanisms to ensure that no harm will come from them.

Indeed, for many nowadays, helping the Syrian rebels is too risky, and might even jeopardize the Middle East s Christian minorities. While the Syrian regime is odious, they argue, the choice is between a hypothetical hope of democracy in the Muslim world and the real risk of endangering Christians lives.

That's risky. The safe thing to do now is to be at the fringes, be remarkable.

Most people say, why should I be risky when I can get 1,500 dollars for sure?

Peacebuilding was inherently a risky endeavour and thus should not require a declaration of exceptional risk.

Too old, too young, too scruffy, too stupid, and they won't do it.

To be sure, as the A market headed toward 5,000, regulators finally realized that the risk of a sharp correction was rising, too. But, instead of working incrementally to create strong, targeted regulations, they performed an abrupt about face, warning investors about risky bubbles and declaring war on margin finance.

Monetary union was always a risky bet, but it did not necessarily have to produce mass unemployment (more than half of all young people in Greece and Spain do not have a job). A significant part of the problem reflects the eurozone's flawed design, and that failure, too, is political.

If big banks have become too complex to regulate, then a workable Volcker Rule is the best way to start simplifying them. 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.

BRUSSELS A financial crisis erupts when a large volume of assets in the financial system suddenly appears to be risky and investors want to get rid of their holdings. These assets become toxic not simply risky, but carrying a risk that cannot be quantified.

To buy or even to hold risky assets in such a situation is a recipe for financial disaster. So is buying or holding equity in firms that may be holding risky assets, regardless of how safe a firm s stock was previously thought to be.

Now comes the very risky part of my talk, which is to demonstrate that inanimate things can synchronize.

I am not too rich, too fat or too happy.

Meanwhile, in my field, macroeconomics, I see economists, bankers, industrialists, technocrats, and politicians make the claim that the policies governments could implement to speed an economic recovery must be, if not counterproductive, at least too risky. After all, that is what a model with a very restricted class of rational expectations would predict.

Too hot, too hot.

Do the monkeys actually want to play it safe and then go with the guy who's going to do the same thing on every trial, or do they want to be risky and try to get a risky, but big, bonus, but risk the possibility of getting no bonus.