Sentences with phrase «risk of meltdown»

This puts the entire modern trade system at risk of meltdown.

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And that means you'll need a lot more firefighters than snow cones at the risk of having your entire organization meltdown the next time you run into a crisis.

One of the recurrent questions about the meltdown was how such a large group of trained professionals could take so many risks, make so many stupid mistakes and still think they were being smart.

Dodd - Frank, which Frank crafted alongside Sen. Christopher Dodd, D - Conn., boosted government oversight of banks in a bid to reduce risk and prevent another financial meltdown like the one in 2008.

Its chief U.S. competitor, AMD, which has been gaining ground on Intel, said in a blog post that its chips are not vulnerable to Meltdown and there is a «near zero risk» from one variant of Spectre and zero risk from another.

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.

The reason the shampoo cycle exists is because time - and - again, institutions increasingly get their risk on as the memory of the last meltdown fades.

Scarred by the 2008 meltdown, businesses and individuals were reluctant to take on risks during the early years of the recovery.

So there is the risk, however slight, that Buffett's view understates the risk Berkshire is shouldering in the event of another unforeseen market meltdown.

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.

But the differing outcomes for the two hypothetical investors amid the 2009 meltdown highlight the risk of being wrong.

If you also don't have a powerful blender like me, cut up the dates and crush the nuts beforehand to avoid the risk of an engine meltdown.

We ran the risk of a triple meltdown of our 3 - year - old and her 14 - month - old twin brothers.

Speaking to the BBC, he said: «There is another concern and risk: the migration issue, in meltdown around the EU, with the EU almost incapable, it seems, of handling this massive wave of migration coming in from, not just by the way Syria.

Yet Labour's equivocal stance on further devolution to Scotland risks alienating its core vote; and recent polls suggest that the Party is on the verge of electoral meltdown in Scotland.

«The disastrously inelegant interview by John McDonnell, where he talked about the inevitability of «open borders», also risks a meltdown of whatever credibility we have.»

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings, and the Biology of Boom and Bust By John Coates Most of us would blame the 2008 financial collapse on the subprime lending meltdown.

But, although the risk of a nuclear core meltdown is very low, the impact of such an event creates a stigma around the noncarbon power source.

The question boils down to the accumulating impacts of daily incremental pollution from burning coal or the small risk but catastrophic consequences of even one nuclear meltdown.

While it is clear that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown was a consequence of an earthquake and tsunami, like all disasters, it was also the result of political, economic and social choices that created or exacerbated broad - scale risks.

Threats of explosions and dangerously high radiation doses are just some of the risks facing workers trying to avert complete meltdowns at multiple reactors in Japan

Such rises would sharply raise risks to food and water supplies and could trigger irreversible damage, such as a meltdown of Greenland's ice, according to U.N. reports.

Though cooling will need to continue for months, the risk of a catastrophic meltdown diminishes with each passing hour.

Risking his life, Timofey stopped a meltdown at work while Shiv is clearly the best of a very bad lot.

When Kate Mara's matter - of - fact risk corporate management specialist comes to weigh in on the economic feasibility of the «product», she's witness to a messianic meltdown.

One caveat: Because bond index funds own so much U.S. government debt, where there is little risk of default, these funds should hold up well in financial meltdowns.

After the mortgage meltdown exposed the systematic risk of conduit loans, many criticized not only the lenders who issued bad debts, but the third parties that packaged and sold those debts to the general market.

The old score requirements used to be 700, but since there was a meltdown in the mortgage industry, mortgage lenders want to have more security to prevent risks of default.

Then again, there are many risks that Wall Street takes on where the probability of ruin is high enough to happen at least once in a lifetime, but adequate capital is not held because protecting against the meltdown scenario would make the return on equity unacceptable.

The stocks - bonds mix you settle on will reflect such factors as your age, how soon you expect to be tapping into your retirement stash and your risk tolerance, or how amenable you are to seeing the value of your retirement portfolio drop during the market's periodic meltdowns.

The study was conducted by The Brondesbury Group in September 2013 and is being billed as the first major portrait of investors» responses to investment risk since the 2008 - 2009 market meltdown.

That's because in the event of a market meltdown, retirees can be vulnerable to the risk of having to sell investments at beaten down prices in order to provide funds to live on, which is known as «sequence of returns risk.»

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.»

Add in injuries, parasites, infections and such and assume that every dog you take in is a potential vector for the spread of diseases into any new home, and at risk of medical meltdown or will get aggressive to defend itself.

His recent solo exhibitions include Red Lines Housing Crisis Learning Center, Queens Museum of Art, New York, 2009 and Red Lines, Death Vows, Foreclosures, Risk Structures: Architectures of Finance from the Great Depression to the Sub-Prime Meltdown, MIT Museum and Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Cambridge, 2008.

With the on - going calamity in Japan and phrases like «nuclear meltdown» and «radiation sickness» in headlines, it's to be expected that people discuss with renewed attention the risks and benefits of nuclear energy.

Is there no way to eliminate the risks of proliferation, reduce nuclear waste, and make the plant safe from terrorism and meltdown, all while making the reactor cheaply?

One need only cite the subprime financial meltdown to see the harmful effects of incorrect assessments of risk and uncertainty.

Yet, faith in these model valuations led to a prediction that Freddie Mac stock was «cheap» when a meltdown of the financial system, largely due to the incorrect valuations and risk estimates by computer models, was less than 180 days away.

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.

Meanwhile, nuclear power is 0.20 euro, because of the omnipresent risk of nuclear meltdowns like the one that occurred in Fukushima.

Since then, risk assessment has been used to estimate the probability of a catastrophic meltdown at a nuclear power plant, or the probability of a population of grizzly bears becoming locally extinct because too many roads were cut into their forest home, or the probability of children having their IQ lowered by exposure to toxic lead and PCBs in the soil near schools built on a toxic waste dump.

Machines running in the cloud appear to be the most affected by the two vulnerabilities (CVE -2017-5753 and CVE -2017-5715 for Spectre, and CVE -2017-5754 Meltdown) as it's possible to steal data from other customers as well, but any computer with a modern process is at risk of attacks if the operating system they're running isn't updated to the latest available software release that includes patches for these bugs.

Intel already had a bad year with the infamous Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities that put billions of devices powered by modern processors at risk of attacks.

news.softpedia.com - While we're not yet done with the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws that put billions of devices at risk of attacks, security researchers have discovered a new wave of attacks called BranchScope.

Yet we're not done with the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws that put billions of devices at risk of attacks.

The company is cautiously delivering its Meltdown and Spectre fixes to Windows PCs, restricting the updates to machines running third - party antivirus that are compatible with its fixes due to the risk of triggering Blue Screen of Death errors.

As you must be aware by now, earlier this year, two major security vulnerabilities were publicly disclosed by Google Project Zero and security researchers from various universities across the globe, dubbed Meltdown and Spectre, which put billions of devices at risk of attacks, including most of Intel processors and any other device powered by a modern CPU.

As governments work to avoid a repeat of the financial markets meltdown of 2007 - 2008, Geoff Fawcett of Hays looks at the impact on Risk and Compliance roles.