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• n  a state of danger involving risk

• The practice of giving letter grades to bonds to reflect their riskiness was pioneered by John Moody in 1909.
• Goldfarb got a sneak peek at some internal memos showing that, yes, there were at least a few prominent folks inside the two mortgage giants sounding alarms about the riskiness of .
• But in the 1920s, convinced that skilled monetary management at the Federal Reserve and the rise of new, professionally run investment trusts had reduced the riskiness of markets .

• peril

News & Articles

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• ‘Window-Dressing’ Undermines Bank Risk-Weight Trust: BIS
  Global banks have improved their capital ratios in part by understating the riskiness of their assets, not by raising their ability to stem losses, the Bank for International Settlements said.
  June 23, 2013 - Bloomberg

Quotes

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• Eben Moglen in New York Times
  It was argued that this was supposed to suggest riskiness in open source, but it turns out that the open-source world was rock solid from the beginning,said Eben Moglen, a professor of law at Columbia University and the founding director of...
• Ben Bernanke in International Herald Tribune
  When it comes to commercial banks, prices on subordinated debt, whose holders would be the last in line in the event of failure, give regulators "useful information about the bank's riskiness," Bernanke said.
• Alex Ovechkin in AFP
  We will give the Bank of England the power to regulate the pay structures, riskiness, complexity and size of financial institutions, and require those with structures that put financial stability at risk to hold large amounts of capital as an... George Osborne http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Osborne&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG3DBk4KujrKLtVbCPvhebntscNYw ShareCast http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.sharecast.com/cgi-bin/sharecast/story.cgi%3Fstory_id%3D2900078&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGU-WrvHHdg8KTLJHZQOjFzLuqTGQ Jul 20, 2009 84278 111975 risky I just play my game," Ovechkin said. "It's me and it is what it is. I play risky. I won't try and hit and make some people get hurt, but people sometimes turn right away and I don't have time to realize and stop. What can you do? You can do...