But to frame these individual events as part of a wider problem is to risk underestimating the distinctly local causes behind each of the events.
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This is important because of the second change: credit risk is more of a problem than it was.
"In Europe we have a cultural problem with the idea of risk, " he said in an interview with FORBES GLOBAL in his office in Paris.
We should look at ways that the law is disincentivizing the creation of lines of communication between workers and firms that help overcome the risk of a collective action problem.
Regulators, too, should remember that no one bank model offers a clean solution to the problem of systemic risk.
In his remarks to to the Senate panel on Thursday, Bernanke also hinted that the Fed's regulatory oversight of the banking system is spotty--a problem that led to Wall Street's mispricing of risk in mortgage-related securities.
But the biggest problem with a floating currency remains the risk of volatility.
Though regulators say naked short-selling (in which shares are sold short without being properly borrowed) isn't a pervasive problem, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sees it as enough of a risk that it is seeking to close certain loopholes that makes it easier to pull off a naked short trade.
Women in their mid 20s to early 30s are now the most at risk of developing a serious alcohol problem.
While it is true that this is a theoretical problem, it is not the immediate risk of exceeding the debt limit.
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The move is to repair a problem with a switch that could increase the risk of a crash, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said.
Failing to include inflation assessing the level of risk in the bid is not such a problem when you are looking six months ahead.
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There is also the problem of reinvestment risk, meaning current bonds are paying a lower rate of interest than maturing bonds are.
And that's OK to have a healthy perspective of yourself and a healthy view of yourself and your body, but to the point where those extra 20, 30, 40, 50 and sometimes much more pounds increase your risk of disease, we've got a problem.
The problem is that for many large firms, systemic risk is a matter of exogenous events, sort of like comets which originate outside the normal operations of the solar system, suddenly appearing, flashing across the sky and then disappearing.
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But Karen Pollitz of Georgetown University says there's a big problem with state high-risk pools that goes beyond money.
"A problem is that there needs to be more corrective work to decrease the risk of injury through faulty movement patterns, " Duncan commented.
We also had no problem with the hinge, which is a component that's always at risk of cheesiness when you're dealing with inexpensive hardware -- it felt solid and consistently closed with a satisfying, positive action.
At the risk of making enemies, I'll take a stab at defining the problem.
Credit risk was not a problem: fast economic growth would in due course take care of it.
Hunt said a strong indicator of the problem is Kentucky's large number of runaways, who are at high risk for being trafficked, and the number of kids incarcerated each year for "status offenses" such as running away or truancy.
The real problem: can Apple still afford to take the risk of introducing just one new phone a year?
This is a problem particularly for the elderly, who are often rendered single by the death of a spouse and whose risk of health or domestic disaster runs high.
The problem with hedge funds is that a lack of information hinders outsiders' ability to measure their contribution to systemic risk.
And although EPA attributed her heart problem to PM2.5 in a published report, no one ever bothered to warn subsequent subjects of cardiac arrhythmia risk.
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One problem is that surgery can have an enormous placebo effect, masking a reality of meager benefits in exchange for the risk and cost it entails.
Water is a more serious problem, both because a lot of it is needed to frack wells and because local groundwater is seen to be at risk of pollution.
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Another problem is that many of the risk genes for common diseases like prostate cancer that are found only confer a slight increase in risk, one that may not be very meaningful to an individual.
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