Geithner s Gamble

Gambler.

The Gambler of North Korea

But it is a foolhardy gamble.

I'll give you an example.

True, it is a very dangerous gamble.

That's a gamble we've got to take.

Administratively, however, it was a gamble.

The euro was always a big gamble, a grand experiment.

For most others, gold is just another gamble that one can make.

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Well, every time you go into a courtroom, it's a gamble.

No silk fair, no gambling. To keep their territory intact, they make up.

Malcolm's gambling and drugs and Harlem nightlife were expensive.

We agreed there'd be no women gambling on the north side.

In pursuing peace with Pakistan, India s government is indeed rolling the dice.

I understand there's to be a little card party here tonight... to which we ladies are cordially not invited.

War is always a gamble. Three of us can take 10 of them.

Can't do that, Wyatt. There's no law against women gambling.

Miss Denbow's marker is respected for 10,000 anywhere in the West.

You invest big, you gamble big, and, hell, you lose big if you have to. You know what I mean?

Gambling by Main Street caused the sub prime crisis.

The problem is that Bush s reckless gamble has now built up considerable political momentum.

But this amounts to betting all of its chips on one hand, the Afghan government an especially risky strategy in such a volatile environment.

As I wrote in my new book Freefall , President Barack Obama took a big gamble at the start of his administration.

It's an incredible gamble, and even when the Convention presents the signed Constitution on September 17th, not all delegates endorse it.

Lambert demonstrates how, in a grand strategic gamble, Britain began to marry its military and especially naval predominance and its global financial leadership.

Obviously the junta would know that its cover had been blown and in return they may have acted prematurely as a last resort, to save their asses and made the last night's gamble.

For the first 85 years, this would have been a very uninteresting gamble, generating an average return of only around 2 a year.

This is certainly high stakes poker, with huge sums hanging in the balance in the 170 trillion global financial market.

Bush s gamble was a loser from the start, generating costly results mainly for the US, but for the rest of the world, too for years to come.

George W. Bush s economic policies have been based on an extraordinarily reckless gamble that reflects a political coalition of two major forces the super rich and evangelical Christians.

Particularly by targeting government corruption, brave journalists made raiding the public till more of a gamble than a birthright and angered many of the corrupt.

Standard gamble (SG) Respondents are asked to choose between remaining in a state of ill health for a period of time, or choosing a medical intervention which has a chance of either restoring them to perfect health, or killing them.

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan takes the prize for the most extreme rhetoric, claiming that not curbing global warming is a terrible gamble with the future of the planet and with life itself.

The national captain was revealed to have a conflict of interest, and the son in law of Indian cricket s most powerful official was implicated in an illegal gambling operation run by a sinister network of bookies.

As individuals, we appear to view a gamble that has a roughly 50 chance of doubling our wealth and a roughly 50 chance of halving it as worthy of consideration not a no brainer, but not out of the question, either.

Historical efforts at monetary union have sometimes collapsed, and sometimes they have survived multiple crises. The future of the eurozone may be cloudy, but it will not be dull.

Hank Paulson, who came to America s Treasury from the strongest US investment bank, Goldman Sachs, made the purgation gamble in allowing Lehman Brothers to go under. He argued that the US could not tolerate a bailout culture.

It is a deeply disturbing vision, one that amounts to a huge, uninformed gamble with the future of the American economy and that suggests that Geithner remains the senior public official worldwide who is most in thrall to the self serving ideology of big banks.

Under the umbrella of common deposit insurance, US savings banks made a gamble for resurrection borrowing excessively from their depositors and lending the money out to risky enterprises, knowing that potential profits could be paid out as dividends to shareholders while potential losses would be socialized.

Is he gambling on the chance of a Republican presidency in 2016? If so, he got the applause but, given the current polls, the latter motive would be quite a gamble.