So, that's the upside. The circular mill is the downside.

Warren Buffet showed another way, in providing equity to Goldman Sachs. By issuing preferred shares with warrants (options), one reduces the public s downside risk and ensures that they participate in some of the upside potential.

The existing business model allows them to take the upside when they win, and hand over the downside to taxpayers when they lose. This encourages excessive risk and threatens repeated cycles of boom bust bailout.

These investors do not view the 7 annual return on stocks as an average expectation, with downside risks counterbalanced by upside opportunities. Rather, they see a good scenario outcome that only the foolhardy would trust.

So far, the downside and upside risks for the world economy are balanced. But if sound government policies in advanced and major emerging economies contain the downside risks that are more prevalent in the first half of this year which derive from political and policy uncertainty a more resilient global economic recovery could take hold in the second half of 2011 and into 2012.

Bankers want to be so highly leveraged for a simple reason implicit government guarantees mean that they get the upside when things go well, while the downside is someone else s problem. Contrary to bankers claims, this is not a good arrangement for society.

It's like tapered to the downside.

In the jargon of economics, this is moral hazard. But no special training is needed to know that it is unwise and dangerous when bank executives get the upside (huge bonuses) when things go well and everyone else bears the downside risks (bailouts and recession).

Rotated Upside Down

And then, because I'm looking for the upside here, I've got to have believable upside.

You're holding the book upside down. This is upside down and this is right side up.

For example, the government s inability to allocate resources such as mining rights or wireless spectrum in a transparent way led the courts to intervene and demand change. And, as the bureaucracy got hauled before the courts, it saw limited upside from taking decisions, despite the significant downside from not acting.

Global Warming s Upside Down Narrative

As matters stand, bankers continue to benefit fully from the upside of their investments, while sharing the downside with creditors and taxpayers and sometimes with shareholders. Although some progress has been made in improving regulation and enforcement, industry lobbies have largely succeeded in delaying essential reforms needed to ensure global financial stability.

The American World Turned Upside Down

She hung the picture upside down.

Why not learn to fly upside down?

Everything here has been turned upside down.

In other words, banks take risks, get paid for the upside, and then transfer the downside to shareholders, taxpayers, and even retirees. In order to rescue the banking system, the Federal Reserve, for example, put interest rates at artificially low levels as was disclosed recently, it also has provided secret loans of 1.2 trillion to banks.

To me, attempting to discern the economic prospects for 2011 is not a particularly interesting question the answer is bleak, with little upside potential and a lot of downside risk. More importantly, how long will it take Europe and America to recover, and can Asia s seemingly export dependent economies continue to grow if their historical markets languish?

And when the Graves are turned upside down

And when the Graves are turned upside down

How do you do that? That's water upside down.

(a calamitous Event) that shall turn things upside down

(a calamitous Event) that shall turn things upside down

It's the downside correlation of their fortunes that will become more and more possible.

Shorting a stock is difficult and risky it is difficult because borrowing stocks is hard to do, and it is risky because shorting has limited upside but infinite downside. In other words, the traditional securities available to investors make it easier to bet in favor of a company than against it, causing prices to be affected more by irrational exuberance than by panics.

Second, many people do see the 7 return on stocks as a reasonable expectation, and would jump at the chance to grab it plus the opportunity of surprises on the upside but they do not think that they can afford to run the downside risks. Indeed, the world seems a much more risky place than it seemed five or ten years ago.

So here we have Penn and Teller, same upside down.

The upside means that if you're telling me that you're going to be out there, five years out, making a million dollars a year hmm. That's not really upside.

It's got to be upside, and it's got to be believable.

Here's the word mirror. No, it's not the same upside down.

So this work is a caricature of an upside down man.

And this is where I believe neoconservatism had it upside down.

It is He who turned upside down the people of Lot

It is He who turned upside down the people of Lot

Turned it upside down, experimented with the shell, experimented with the head.

And even a tiny probability of catastrophe is unacceptable when the downside could be of global consequence.

Especially when they're upside down, you're engaging that general facial recognition software there.

Of course, I can turn it upside down, and it will remain locked.

and turned the land upside down, and rained down stones of baked clay.

and turned the land upside down, and rained down stones of baked clay.

We turned the town upside down and rained upon them stones of clay.

We turned the town upside down and rained upon them stones of clay.

And when the graves are turned upside down (and they bring out their contents)