Sentences with phrase «risk global meltdown»

Forty years ago, a highly controversial study warned that we had to curb growth or risk global meltdown.

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He continued to try to coax provinces into voluntarily joining a national regulator, but also began drafting a law allowing Ottawa to regulate some of those broader risks the court mentioned, including murkier corners of capital markets like over-the-counter derivatives, often blamed for the much of the 2008 global credit meltdown.

Aug 25, 2015: The «quant meltdown» of August 2007 and the subsequent unfolding of the global financial crisis highlighted the risks of crowded investment strategies.

Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown — made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary homeowners — were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are incredibly out of step with the dangers those risks pose.

Das (2008) conceded that contrary to his earlier view of financial globalization «eliminating» credit risks, in fact «[p] artial blame for the fall 2008 meltdown of the global financial market does justly go to globalization.»

Stop me if this sounds familiar: A slew of large companies fail to disclose millions of dollars in speculative risks; iconic investment firms also neglect to scrutinize these risks; it all adds up to a global financial meltdown.