Sentences with phrase «worse than average risk»

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As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

* Yes, newer studies show no effects on certain health risks, but if we become dogmatic claimers of how red meat is super healthy, we become no better than our opposition that is based in bad evidence or average person arguments for that matter.

It simply says that a mechanical strategy of waiting for a crash on average resulted in much worse absolute and risk - adjusted returns than buying and holding.

Given that the average is much nearer the best case scenario than the worst case, I am happy to take the risk of comparatively losing $ 25k compared to the possibility of gaining $ 8 million...

In a weird way that may make them a lower risk to the credit card issuer than someone with an average or worse credit rating who's never filed bankruptcy.

Alternatively, India could decide that Uber is better able to take the risk from bad drivers than average consumers are, so the right policy is to assign the risk to Uber.

What makes you a better or worse risk than the average driver?

However, the quality of indoor air is, on average, two to five times worse than that of outdoor air, and in fact, the EPA rates indoor air pollution as one of the five greatest public health risks.