riskiness

• “I do believe it's better to not link reserves to "riskiness" because it basically creates an incentive to hide information about your assets.”

  One Ply Look-Ahead, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “Other factors such as riskiness of approach, schedule, ease-of-doing business and performance, etc.”

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• “But bankers and analysts doubt that will happen on a large scale, given the perceived riskiness of such bonds.”

  The Wall Street Journal: European Banks Rush to Grasp Lifeline

• “Without this clinical testing, there isn't much data to support the viability of the compounds, increasing the riskiness of any deal.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Abbott Labs Licenses Molecules from Reata

• “Banks have generally been cutting their holdings of bonds issued by highly-indebted countries in an effort to reduce the size and riskiness of their balance sheets and build up their reserves.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Italian, Spanish Bond Yields Rise

• “In the minutes of its November meeting, the committee said that a focus on such returns takes "little account of the riskiness of the business strategies used to achieve them.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Banks Still Struggle to Find Happy Returns

• “Some factors are difficult to measure (like riskiness), others are impossible to know (like distant growth rates) and subtle changes in the assumptions can produce sharply different results.”

  The Wall Street Journal: How to Profit From Analysts' Stock Recommendations

• “This is true—if you make an unwarranted assumption that the riskiness of bank assets would have been unaffected, or even improved, under higher capital requirements.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Basel's Capital Gang

• “Medicine has changed since 1987; presumably, so has the riskiness of going without health insurance.”

  Myth Diagnosis

• “The Obama administration and financial regulators took new steps Tuesday to rein in the size and riskiness of big Wall Street firms, aiming to fill in the details of the ambitious goals sketched out in financial reform legislation enacted last summer.”

  The Washington Post: Financial regulators move to fill in details of Dodd-Frank legislation

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