On the basis that there's a link between confidence and risk-taking, a speeding index, also because people are in a greater hurry when there's business to be done.
Spokesman Darren Dopp noted that the dropped charges were wholly unrelated to, and less serious than, the core charge of fraud that it had filed against Greenberg and Smith, mainly on the basis of risk transfer transactions with General Reinsurance , or GenRe, that allegedly misstated AIG's financial health to its shareholders.