Much of the rebound since then reflects a return to more normal risk appetites.
"I just felt like this baby was at higher-than-normal risk and deserved our best shot, " Dr Gay said.
Normal risk management techniques are essential to prevent potential catastrophic loss due to the undiversified nature of the position.
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Thus, a higher than normal risk premium should also be expected.
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There has to be some understanding that these are profits created by government guarantees and government intervention rather than created by the normal risk-taking behavior of capitalist firms.
Even more troubling was the finding that people who had been given a panorex when they were under ten had 4.9 times the normal risk of developing a meningioma.
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It was absurd (as is now obvious) to argue that equities were, in effect, a riskless asset but it was true that equities have been a better bet over the past century than the normal risk premium seemed to imply.
Looking at firefighter heart attack deaths nationwide over a decade, the researchers found that the risk of heart attack is highest when firefighters are working at a fire scene with increased odds ranging from 10 to 100 times the normal risk of heart attack.
The complaint also says that Fannie listed its exposure to higher-than-normal-risk Alt-A loans by nearly half.
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But thyroid cancer is extremely rare and the normal lifetime risk of developing it is about 0.75 percent.
Virtually every organization that has issued screening recommendations recommends that a normal-risk person (someone without a family history of colon cancer) start colorectal screening at the age of 50.
In usual times, the power to tax supports the normal hierarchy of risk.
McCAIN: A bubble occurs when prices are driven up too quickly, speculators move into markets, and these players begin to suspend the normal rules of risk, and assume that prices can only move up but never down.
Senator JOHN MCCAIN (Democrat, Arizona): A bubble occurs when prices are driven up too quickly, speculators move into markets and these players begin to suspend the normal rules of risk and assume that prices can only move up, but never down.
Nevertheless, if you like looking in the rearview mirror and care what the clients of one of the biggest investment banks in the world thinks about the market, then it might be interesting to note that 17% of their investors said they were running greater than normal exposure to risk compared to 10% in December.
In specific reply to your assertion the author of this piece did not offer any evidence refuting the LNT hypothesis, I disagree, he specifically cited factual, observed experience of no increased cancer risk in areas where normal and persistent background radiation levels are well above levels the LNT hypothesis would assert must have statistically significant higher cancer risk.
In theory, the longer the QT interval is above normal, the more the risk of sudden cardiac death.
The WHI survey also showed that within five years from stopping HRT, the breast cancer risk returns to normal.
But he ignores the fact that savers are incurring permanent losses by being deprived of normal rates of return on risk-free assets.
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In contrast, equity markets are experiencing higher risk characteristics than normal.
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Second, it provides key evidence that these medicines can prevent heart attacks even in patients who have normal cholesterol but have other risk factors for heart disease.
What does all of this have to do with Kurtosis (and what is that anyway?) and normal distributions and black swans and risk management?
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But obese patients who did not stick to these healthy lifestyle recommendations still had a lower risk of death than normal weight patients who smoked or were inactive.
But these were not normal conditions, and because of the risk we were taking, we needed a huge margin for error.
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Other work by the same researchers has shown that a certain proportion of obese patients have very normal health and are not at increased risk of heart disease.
However, more than half of those in the obese category were in class 1, and these individuals had no increased risk of dying compared to normal weight individuals.
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And AstraZeneca's recently approved statin, Crestor, could swell the market by another 30 million people in 2007, when it expects to complete a 15, 000-person study that aims to prove Crestor prevents heart attacks in people with normal cholesterol but who are at high risk due to inflamed arteries.
While obese people had a higher risk of death -- particularly those whose BMI was 35 or more -- overweight people had a 6% lower risk of death than those of normal weight.
Had the government not stepped in, GM might have restructured under normal bankruptcy procedures, without putting public money at risk.
Cholesterol is clearly not the only risk factor for cardiovascular disease -- half of all heart attacks occur in people with normal levels of LDL, or bad cholesterol -- but the accuracy of CRP as a predictor of cardiac risk has been disputed.
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