And so as the government's debt becomes riskier and riskier, people start demanding higher and higher interest rate.

Fear and apathy have become riskier than taking a stand.

The unknown is perceived to be riskier than the familiar.

And holing up in a border town is even riskier.

During those months of political dithering, US treasuries became a riskier asset.

Use more cheap debt, and equity becomes riskier and costlier, keeping overall financing costs the same.

Lending to foreign governments is in many ways inherently riskier than unsecured private debt or junk bonds.

Such changes put pressure on universal banks to abandon riskier investment bank activities in order to operate more freely.

It is much riskier to give a 50,000 dollar loan than it is to give a 500 dollar loan.

It will merely make life riskier and more expensive for them, pushing them even further to the margins of society.

But the funds contributed were then invested in riskier assets that included trust loans to companies such as property developers.

In turn, sovereign weakness made the banks appear riskier, and the banks and their home governments became joined at the hip.

The big banks dared to make riskier loans because they had started repackaging loans and selling them to others as securities.

In other words, banks undergoing examination lend more and make riskier loans and these findings are even more pronounced in CRA eligible tracts.

Deficits are riskier if the level of the national debt, the accumulation of all previous deficits, is high or rapidly rising relative to GDP.

If they perceive that the dollar and dollar bonds have become riskier, they will want to change the distribution of assets in their portfolios.

There are no psychological preferences, natural resource constraints, or technological factors that make investing in private enterprises riskier than it was five years ago.

CGAP notes that the principle task of donors is to identify and bet on promising but riskier MFIs, leaving known winners' to commercial investors.

Big banks, not small banks, are the major players in the market for short term debt, which makes their bonds riskier than small banks bonds.

As the United Nations takes on more complex and riskier mandates, the safety and security of United Nations troops and other personnel have become increasingly important.

Often young and under capitalized, these smaller enterprises appear riskier because they are usually found in poorly regulated markets characterized by an uncertain political or economic environment.

In particular, the fact that investment banks, which were propelled into riskier activities by these policy changes, were entirely outside the regulatory net was a recipe for disaster.

As China satisfied its demand for safe assets, it turned to riskier foreign investments. It began rebalancing its economy from saving to consumption and from exports to domestic demand.

The two cannot really be compared One is a safe choice, but not likely to have a huge impact the other is riskier, but ultimately may be more worthwhile.

While the regulations are likely to reduce the likelihood and impact of financial crises, they will also make long term loans more expensive and investments in illiquid assets riskier.

With so many risks in so many places, investors, not surprisingly, will eventually prize liquidity in their portfolios, while shunning riskier fixed assets again when these tail risks materialize.

The truth is that we have already exhausted so much of the easily accessible fossil fuels that we have already entered a far riskier business era, the era of extreme energy.

And with the hype this month over eight successive records for the Dow Jones index (and many other records around the world), excitement induces more investors to enter riskier asset markets.

The truth is that we have already exhausted so much of the easily accessible fossil fuels that we have already entered a far riskier business era, the era of extreme energy.

A commission headed by Sir John Vickers, the Oxford economist and former Bank of England chief economist, wants banks retail operations to be ring fenced from riskier trading and investment banking businesses.

As Edgar L. Smith wrote in The Atlantic Monthly back in 1924, when the principal risks are macroeconomic, bonds are no safer than diversified portfolios of stocks in fact, they are riskier.

At current interest rates, banks lend to the government, large stable corporations, and commercial real estate dealers they do not extend credit to riskier borrowers, like start up companies or first time home buyers.

But this assumption was shattered when a broad based decline in real estate prices began in 2007 and loss rates on mortgages suddenly increased. As a result, RMBS were found to be much riskier than anticipated.

As Haldane notes, even the celebrated Volcker rule, intended to build a better wall between more mundane commercial banking and riskier proprietary bank trading, has been hugely watered down as it grinds through the legislative process.

Consumer or market driven demand the kind most of us think of when we hear the word is far less predictable, and therefore much riskier, than state sponsored demand of the sort that landed a man on the moon.

Moreover, in a risk off environment, when investors are risk averse or when equities and other risky assets are subject to market and or credit uncertainty, it may be better to hold negative yielding bonds than riskier and more volatile assets.

And there's very illegal hustles, which you smuggle in, you get smuggled in, drugs, pornography, cell phones, and just as in the outer world, there's a risk reward tradeoff, so the riskier the enterprise, the more profitable it can potentially be.

It ain't any riskier than waiting around here for a break... and this is the country where the nuggets of gold are crying for you... to take them out of the ground, make them shine in coins... on the fingers and necks of swell dames.

In the second stage, starting in the spring of 2009, the crisis spread to the sovereigns, as investors grew increasingly worried that propping up banks would strain government finances. In turn, sovereign weakness made the banks appear riskier, and the banks and their home governments became joined at the hip.

The world in the future will be a riskier place than we thought it was not because government will no longer offer guarantees that it should never have offered in the first place, but rather because the real risk that one s customers might vanish in a prolonged depression is back.

Then we enable these loans to be pooled and packaged into securities that can be sold to investors, reducing risk in the process. We divvy up the stream of payments on these home loans further into tranches of varying risk, compensating holders of the riskier kind with higher interest rates.

That is no longer true. The world in the future will be a riskier place than we thought it was not because government will no longer offer guarantees that it should never have offered in the first place, but rather because the real risk that one s customers might vanish in a prolonged depression is back.