The Uptick s Downside

There is little downside risk.

Such politically expedient language has a strategic downside.

The economic crisis has exacerbated the perceived downside of globalization.

But there are downside and upside risks to this scenario.

The United States represents another downside risk for global growth.

SEOUL Emerging economies are facing significant uncertainty and serious downside risks.

Requiring managers to apprise investors of downside exposure would help even more.

There may sometimes be a downside in trying to woo your opponents.

The IMF is absolutely right to remind ministers each April of downside risks.

New ways to borrow and to spread risk seemed to have little downside.

So far, the downside and upside risks for the world economy are balanced.

But they cannot rule out the downside risk of a synchronized global downturn.

As 2013 begins, the downside risks to the global economy are gathering force.

Then, in early 1980s, when Dr. Frank Sortino developed formal definition of downside risk as a better measure of investment risk than standard deviation, downside risk has become the industry standard for risk management.

It's the downside correlation of their fortunes that will become more and more possible.

The big downside of the currency peg for Europe is supposed to be exports.

Without dismissing the downside risks, I remain cautiously optimistic about the global economy s prospects.

Increasing leverage boosts returns on the upside but is very risky on the downside.

Fortunately, the Fed is finally facing up to the downside of its grandiose experiment.

By encouraging industrial production directly, it is possible to have the upside without the downside.

But the downside of this aspirational language and philosophy can be a perpetual, personal restlessness.

The downside is that some momentum has been lost, especially at the G 20 level.

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In any case, downside risks are high, and room on the upside is essentially non existent.

The downside is that housing busts last equally long, because houses are such a durable good.

Big banks get a big taxpayer subsidy in the form of downside protection for their creditors.

This will constrain the ability of central banks to respond to the downside risks to growth.

This is not the only, or even the most important, downside risk facing the global economy.

Revaluation would accelerate this trend.

This trend must be reversed.

There is clearly a trend.

Part of a regional trend

That trend must be reversed.

That trend should be encouraged.

This is a welcome trend.

Bankers get the upside and taxpayers (and people laid off as credit is disrupted) get the downside.

These institutions, attracted by the high rates of return that were promised, invariably neglected the downside risks.

By being perceived as too big to fail, their banks benefit from a government backstop or downside guarantee.

The bankers get the upside when things go well, while the downside risks are largely someone else s problem.

The rise in food prices has exposed the downside of economic interdependence without global transfer and compensation schemes.

Unfortunately, that trend may be reversing.

Reversing this trend demands urgent action.

The current trend is toward decentralization.

This trend seems to have continued.