Opportunity cost is the risk of making decisions now that result in lower returns over the longer term than you would have gotten otherwise.
Better still to let shareholders and bondholders take the risk of bad management decisions and remove taxpayers from the equation.
Theresa Villiers told the Commons that granting bail was a matter for the courts, which would take their own decisions based on the risk of someone re-offending.
If they now face the risk of being taken to the cleaners for business decisions made in good faith, even fewer are likely to step forward.
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Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, calls efficiency rules "political pabulum" that allows politicians to sidestep the risk of letting energy prices float so that people feel the full brunt of their decisions.
Mr. Hanke would be most helpful in suggesting how African policymakers can protect the currency-risk interests of foreign investors and leave investment-making decisions to those who understand the terrain and know that plenty of investment opportunities await to be exploited.
The ABI report said that with people being asked to pay more towards flood protection in their area and take on more of the risk, the Environment Agency needed to involve communities better in decisions on flood protection.
The Association of Chief Police Officers said police should demand DNA samples for only the most serious of previous offenders, but it was up to each force to make decisions based on the risk posed by individuals.
The heavy guns of big business have not yet been deployed, warning of the risk to jobs when 40% of British exports go to the EU. Already the business community is saying that investment decisions are being postponed because of uncertainty about Britain's future in Europe.
The Association of Chief Police Officers said police should demand DNA samples for only the most serious of historic offences, but that it was up to individual forces to make decisions based on the risk posed by individuals.
They argue that a wide-ranging group of students helps to put business decision-making into a wider perspective, and thereby reduce the risk of a herd mentality that leads to ill-informed decisions.
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"Whether purposeful or not, many of the decisions that BP, Halliburton, and Transocean made that increased the risk of the Macondo blowout clearly saved those companies significant time (and money), " the report says.
In recent years, it's become clear that dopamine helps to regulate decisions involving risk and reward, allowing us to experience both the thrill of getting what we want and the pain of losing it all.
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For one, it helps mitigate the risk of starting a business, which generally allows for a clearer head and better, sounder decisions.
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And the great majority of investment advisers claim they base decisions on this theory, which falls short when it comes to accounting for the risk of borrowed money.
In addition to emphasizing the relevance of such business activity to federal procurement decisions, this process might, at minimum, urge the establishment of global security risk management programs, much like export controls already in force.
At the risk of giving a grade, I think voters generally did a good job when asked to directly make decisions.
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This means that no matter how risky most of your engagements and decisions in the game may be, the purchase is at least a low-risk one.
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