The cable companies are too entrenched and making too much money to risk disrupting their gravy train.
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This often leads to disaster as they put more money at risk only to watch it blow away.
Surely we must be putting some money at risk if we are increasing our contribution to the IMF?
Does anyone in government service have their own money at risk based on the accuracy of their economic calculations?
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By definition, investing means putting money at risk to earn an extra reward.
There has been some criticism that the move would put taxpayers' money at risk if new homeowners defaulted on repayments.
Had the government not stepped in, GM might have restructured under normal bankruptcy procedures, without putting public money at risk.
The flaw is in the idea that the wealthy will put their money at risk in hard economic times to create jobs.
Every time you invest in stocks, you place your money at risk.
Higher capital requirements would put more of the shareholders' money at risk and, crucially, enable banks to absorb more losses in bad times.
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The Europeans' reluctance to put a hefty amount of real money at risk has weakened the second part of the firewall, the IMF's resources.
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The FED and Central Banks want to force savers and investors to put their money at risk in equities whether stocks, commodities or real estate.
But I thought that if regulators demanded that traders put more of their own money at risk, they would be less motivated to drive up prices.
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The lingering concerns about the company's shares were aggravated by the options-market debut, which allows investors to bet on the future of the stock with less money at risk.
In recent years, too many financial firms have put taxpayer money at risk by operating hedge funds and private equity funds and making riskier investments to reap a quick reward.
Your major concern is that the venture capitalist does not have his own money at risk, because we are entitled to 20% of the profits after the limited partners have recouped their investment.
Federal tax policy creates the incentive through IRAs for people to put their retirement money at risk in stocks and bonds in the expectation they will earn higher returns than they could elsewhere.
Sad to say, the same red flags that should have ended Madoff's scam years earlier are visible throughout the investment management world and are putting trillions of dollars of public pension money at risk.
Some had expected Mr Miles to recommend market-distorting tax-incentives for fixed mortgages, or the creation of a government-sponsored mortgage underwriter along the lines of America's Fannie Mae, which would put taxpayers' money at risk.
"There is a general political sentiment that it is not acceptable to be bailing out a country, and thereby putting European taxpayers' money at risk, to basically protect Russian depositors in Cypriot banks, " he said.
According to court papers filed in Manhattan, Taylor entered fictitious information in trading account records and lied to company representatives to cover up the fact that he had put 10 times more money at risk in the trade than he was allowed.
And since there is no capital at risk for the GP if a fund loses money, the risk of default on the debt is borne solely by the LPs.
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He felt that my advice to him was based on too much optimism about the future and was putting him at risk - even though I had been right and he had made money at a risk level that was very low.
In the same way, at the casino, people who win money become less risk averse, because they feel they're playing with the house's money.
If they make money, if the risk pays off, they get to keep the money.
Investors are increasingly channeling their money into higher risk ETFs and away from more conservative fixed-income funds.
Package all those spacecraft into one or two launches that would save money but increase risk of failure.
Wagner said Silicon Valley startups and Hollywood movies have one big thing in common: big money chasing big risk.
And prime rate would clearly be the wrong interest rate to use for Apple cannot lend money out, risk free, at the prime rate.
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