Sentences with phrase «of dangerous investments»

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He referred to the trend of companies buying back their shares to drive up their stock price, instead of making investments that will benefit the companies for years to come, as simply being unsustainable and dangerous.

But people who rely 100 % on any type of investment — whether it's their own company or anything else — are taking a big chance, because of a dangerous lack of diversification.»

Firouzabadi said Iran's central bank, like that of many other nations, has not come to a stable and defined stance on Bitcoin, noting that many countries look at it as a potentially dangerous option in light of its violent price fluctuations and investment risk.

Wall Street took over and sold the inflation to the world in the form of dangerous securitized «investment» instruments.

Being in charge of a large Chinese company or investment firm might be one of the most dangerous jobs out there at the moment.

When significant growth is achieved, meanwhile — as in the United States between 2003 and 2007 — it comes from dangerous levels of borrowing that translate excess savings into unsustainable levels of investment (which in this case emerged as a housing bubble).

And while most of the investing herd crowds into dangerous, overpriced stocks, Tim Price lives and breathes value investing as he searches for great investments all over the world for Sovereign Man readers and his clients.

As Robert Michaud, chief investment officer of ETF strategist New Frontier Advisors, remarked to Bloomberg: «There have always been cleverly designed investment strategies that assume they'll always have the liquidity they need to work, but that can be dangerous.

The 43 pages amount to a complete overhaul of how Britain is run, with rail, mail and parts of the energy sector nationalised, an enhanced role for trade unions and a substantial increase in public investment - or a dangerous spending spree, in Tory parlance.

«For outsiders, it symbolizes that the South Bronx is dangerous, disparate and not worthy of investment.

New York's investments in the likes of Exxon are also financially dangerous.

They are so dangerous they threaten millions of jobs and billions of investment.

«In this period of austerity, national economic uncertainty, unpredictability of federal funding, and rising social service costs there is an increasing risk that funding for infrastructure investments will be curbed to dangerous levels,» Ravitch said in a press release.

Besides at its height, the dangerous region was very large as the speed boats usually docked with ocean - going support ships instead of the land ports; extending the effective range (and requiring a greater capital investment by the pirates to pay off).

But Peter Frumhof of the Union of Concerned Scientists cautions that government investment in CCS without supporting economic incentives to reduce carbon dioxide emissions is «disingenuous at best, and dangerous at worst.»

Implementing key policies and investments in those three systems — from phasing out fossil fuels to stopping deforestation to ramping up energy efficiency — could deliver at least half of the emissions cuts needed by 2030 to lower the risk of dangerous climate change, said Jeremy Oppenheim, the report's program director.

«There becomes a market for investment opportunities for these independent charters, which is dangerous — wild and dangerous — because at the end of the day, the result is a profit margin,» he said.

Instead of margin accounts, you can also take out investment loans, which can be just as dangerous.

It is dangerous in that it magnifies the volatility of the already risky investments you are making.

It can certainly be a dangerous topic to blog about But I have a feeling that many of the people who spend their time arguing about the precise safe withdrawal rate haven't actually lived off of an investment portfolio.

To further this idea, the value of options contracts fluctuates to an equally greater degree than the value of their underlying asset, making options a very lucrative, but equally dangerous, investment medium.

While splurging can be dangerous, spending extra on the right items or cause is more of an investment.

I wrote about this recently — a focus on a single investment attribute's always dangerous, but dividend yield certainly seems the v worst of the bunch to me.

I'm not generally a fan of insurance companies investing in anything more dangerous than investment grade bonds.

In «Black box» blues I argued that automated trading was a potentially dangerous element to include in a quantitative investment strategy, citing the «program trading / portfolio insurance» crash of 1987.

For example, if, two years into a 10 - year security, the security's owner thinks that the issuer is headed into dangerous waters in terms of its credit, the security owner may choose to buy a credit default swap with a five - year term that would then protect their investment until the seventh year.

I also pointed out why I believe the risk profile on bonds is currently upside down, arguing that for one of the few times in history they may actually be more dangerous an investment than equities.

Financially, this is a dangerous world, outside of the well - established channels for investment.

We need to do our best to break the dangerous cycle of investment returns impacting our mood.

I'm certainly not advocating diving straight into stocks, sectors & markets you know nothing about, but clinging rigidly to your comfort zone may be just as / if not more dangerous for your health — being the best sailor on a ship ain't much use if it's sinking fast in the middle of the Atlantic... Stocks change, valuations change, markets change, economies change — to avoid risk, and to seek opportunity, you need to change also... The more flexible & varied your investment approach — in terms of perspective & analysis — the more you'll stack the deck in your favour.

Anyway, I might disagree with your whole thesis, regardless — emerging markets are no more dangerous than developed markets: Yes, people always fearfully imagine losing 100 % of their investment in an emerging market — and v rarely that can happen — but they prefer to ignore the fact that in the credit crisis, on their own doorstep, they lost all their home equity, 50 % of their stock portfolio, and the rest was confiscated in taxes & unsustainable future tax / entitleement / debt burdens...

The president - elect of the Maldives, a nation of 1,200 low islands in the Indian Ocean, is planning to establish an investment fund with some of its earnings from tourism so it can buy a haven for its citizens should global warming raise sea levels at a dangerous pace, according to several news reports.

But billions in US investment to help India move ahead on ambitious targets for expanding its use of wind and solar power, as well as initiatives to clean up the dangerous levels of soot and smog, are very much on the cards.

The carbon bubble idea was launched in April 2013 to highlight the $ 674 billion of investments into oil, gas and coal that must stay in the ground if the world is to avoid dangerous levels of warming.

Again, it's not just that burning tar sands oil produces a lot of emissions; it's that long - term capital investments like Keystone (and coal plants, and coal export facilities) «lock in» those dangerous emissions for decades and make catastrophic climate disruption inevitable.

While negligent dog owners happily pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to own a pure breed Pit Bull or Huskie, they are less willing to make the investment in time that it takes to become caring and responsible owners of these potentially dangerous breeds.

The awkward release of BTG makes it a much more dangerous investment than Bitcoin Cash.

For regulators and governments, these investment opportunities often have the hallmarks of dangerous scams and are predominantly looked upon with suspicion.

The report also claims the risk of sudden restrictions from countries across the globe make Bitcoin a dangerous investment, and claims the dominant cryptocurrency is disruptive to the established banking system.

CNBC's Fast Money segment has regularly featured investor and presenter Brian Kelly advising viewers to buy Bitcoin at certain price points, along with rebuttals of criticism that the virtual currency is a dangerous investment choice.