Financial deregulation together with easy money had contributed to excessive risk taking.

If we try to save money now, we risk spending much more later.

Money market funds perverse incentives to take on excessive risk remain largely intact.

But, if taxpayer money is at risk anyway, as it is today, why not use it creatively?

For example, households and investment managers, reluctant to keep money in safe money market funds, instead seek to invest in securities with longer maturities and higher credit risk, so long as they offer extra yield.

But pension funds cannot do this, because they risk running out of money if, on average, people turn out to live longer than expected.

Through the Internet it can raise money, train, plan and execute terrorist operations with very little risk of discovery and no need to travel.

They accepted the risk implied by ultra thin capitalizations when it was mainly US government money on the line they would be more reluctant to do so if it was mostly their own money that they were wagering.

Unless we break the ugly trends of big money in politics and rampant consumerism, we risk winning economic productivity at the price of our humanity.

But the advent of derivatives concentrated risk rather than dispersing it, for there was even more money to be made by selling risk to people who did not know how to value it or, indeed, what risks they were bearing.

Similarly, Mexico s tiered approach to financial access according to which requirements for opening bank accounts are proportionate to risk, with low value accounts subject to higher transaction restrictions has expanded access to basic accounts, while mitigating the risk of money laundering.

Firms know that as long as the hot money can reach mainland banks through Hong Kong, they can expect risk free yields of more than 2 .

Moreover, they risk repeating the standard pattern of US European cooperation the US as the policy developer and Europe as the apolitical and hesitant money spender.

Banks and bond holders had lost hundreds of millions of dollars, but opted to restructure his debt to avoid the risk of losing more money in court.

In that case, he would risk getting a beating, though perhaps a few beggars would indulge his fantasies in the hope of duping him out of his money.

Bad Money, Good Money

Why impose restrictions on a dealmaker who earns a large fee for arranging a merger that imposes no risk on the bank after the transaction has closed? The same is true for a trader who makes money on spreads rather than from taking on risk.

The world should beware. Unless we break the ugly trends of big money in politics and rampant consumerism, we risk winning economic productivity at the price of our humanity.

All these arguments apply only to long term investors who can afford to wait out another 40 decline in values and keep their money invested until perceived risk drops.

But when you can play with others money and expect a very high reward for success and no punishment for failure, the incentives for irresponsible risk taking become enormous.

But it also seemed to me that a world short of risk bearing capacity needed virtually anything that induced people to commit their money to long term risky investments.

He realized that it was important to act early, with money that would be spent quickly, but that there was a risk that the crisis would not be over soon.

It is not your money, or the Government's money, or the Prime Minister's money.

By transferring their right to print money to the European Central Bank (ECB), member countries exposed themselves to the risk of default, like Third World countries heavily indebted in a foreign currency.

The general environment surrounding money management is also more and more complex, calling for tighter and more comprehensive risk management and proactive action as regards the trends and requirements of the industry.

GDP risk is a long term risk.

Reaching that goal will require increased confidence in the policies and institutions of the countries in which the money is to be spent. New processes for sharing and reducing risk will be necessary.

Then, with the immediate default risk removed, money stormed out of risky assets into Treasuries to wait out the economic bad news mainly feeble and declining growth, employment stagnation, and falling equity prices.

In Russia, power is money and money is power.

Usury (making money from money) was an offense against God.

The proposal would also have required that money market funds hold back a fraction of some redemptions, thereby making investors take some risk that funds might not have complete transactional liquidity if their investments weakened.

The chief will be responsible for risk control of the Fund's investments as a whole in terms of portfolio risk, operational risk and compliance risk, and will plan and perform the oversight of performance measurement, investment risk analysis and operational risk analysis, including risk arising from sub adviser and service provider relationships.

As a result, sovereign risk is now becoming banking risk.

Green Money

Money laundering

Money laundering

Money laundering

Lending money at interest was identified with usury, or making money from money rather than from goods and services a distinction that goes back to Aristotle, for whom money was barren.

But, buoyed by government bailout money, guarantees, and low interest rates, many banks have again begun to pay their top managers huge bonuses while fighting vigorously against reforms designed to restrain their risk taking and compensation.

But to insist that protesters, old and young, fathers and mothers, numbering as many as 150,000, were willing to risk their lives sitting under a scorching Tropical sun for two months only for money strains credulity.

Fadil had a lot of money and played a lot of money.

The financial products being created didn t manage risk they enhanced risk.

Risk reduction

Risk factors

Money isn't everything, but if you have no money, you can't do anything.