It is possible that banks have used financial engineering to take on risks that do not show on their balance sheets, which mostly look healthy.
In fact, I think what military commanders are required to tell people what it will take to do something, alert them to the risks that are out there, and I think that dialogue is very, very important.
And I think that we need to have a policy which protects the strong economy, which ensures that people who do well and take risks are able to be rewarded from that.
When he founded pioneering game maker Atari Inc. in 1972, he and his team created a culture that enabled people to do their best work, be creative and take risks, have fun and to change as needed to solve the problems that needed to be solved as they grew the business.
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If you make it more worthwhile for people to work productively and take risks, they will do so.
People take risks, they bear the responsibility for those risks, and they're supposed to learn from them and do better next time, and that's how a healthy market grows.
The tax, named after the Nobel Prize-winning economist James Tobin, was originally designed to discourage volatile currency trading and also had the potential to help developing nations, but many supporters now say it is one way to ensure that banks do not take excessive risks that could trigger another financial crisis.
But share-price performance is not a formal factor that the board's remuneration committee is supposed to take into account when deciding bonuses - because to do so would give too great an incentive to the chief executive to take dangerous short-term risks to temporarily boost the share price.
But when the risks are so well known, why do people choose to take them?
In spite of--or perhaps because of--growing competition, Landgraf vowed to do what his distinctly edgy network has always done: take risks.
Banks benefiting from their FDIC backing and ability to access the Federal Reserve's discount window will be required to curb their speculative activity, while those that do not receive explicit government aid will be free to take big risks as well as fail.
We take risks in all we do in life, from negotiating traffic on the Garden State Parkway to eating sushi from the supermarket.
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They do not make us a nation of takers, they free us to take the risks that make this country great.
That is why my Administration has fought tirelessly to invest in entrepreneurs and small businesses so they can do what they do best -- take risks, develop new ideas, grow businesses, and create new jobs.
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