It's too risk averse.

People are a little risk averse. So what?

Risk averse investors may now demand higher risk premia for buying bonds from countries seen as weak debtors.

The crisis spread because the banking system was not sufficiently risk averse and in some cases even seemed to relish risk.

The Muslim Brotherhood s leadership, for its part, usually takes a risk averse, gradualist approach to crisis management.

Lack of equity capital, in turn, made risk averse shareholders hire gamblers to manage their limited liability investment companies.

Indeed, conventional wisdom holds that, during a depression, citizens become risk averse and will not support liberalization.

Now, in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, he is shrewdly forcing a divided and risk averse West to choose between war and accommodation.

States in decline think of the Austro Hungarian Empire in 1914 tend to become less risk averse and thus much more dangerous.

To be sure, China may have a strong tendency to create bubbles, partly because people in a fast growing economy become less risk averse.

But some, being averse turn away,

No wonder people are averse to doodling at work.

Courts haven t been entirely averse to taking responsibility, though.

Meanwhile, the Bank s extreme risk averse culture reflects a rational response to critics who make a huge fuss about every project or program failure.

As consumers, firms, and investors become more cautious and risk averse, the equity market rally of the second half of 2012 has crested.

In fact they would never have thought of themselves as closed and set in their ways, as slow to respond to new challenges, as small and risk averse.

Thirty five years ago, the US National Institutes of Health adopted overly risk averse guidelines for research using recombinant DNA, or genetic engineering, techniques.

Moreover, credit growth on both sides of the Atlantic will be restrained, as many financial institutions in the US and Europe maintain a risk averse stance toward lending.

Both the two year and five year US repo rates have been pushed periodically into negative territory, owing to the combined effects of risk averse behavior, investor deleveraging, and stricter banking regulation.

I'm generally averse to the Internet, but I've begun to realize that the Web offers exceptional opportunities.

If people are risk averse enough that increased fear of the future causes them to save more, rising global uncertainty will raise bond and stock prices, and lower interest rates and dividend and earnings yields.

The Doha Round ought to profit from some of these fundamental forces that favor open trade and impede protectionism. Indeed, conventional wisdom holds that, during a depression, citizens become risk averse and will not support liberalization.

Risk averse investors may now demand higher risk premia for buying bonds from countries seen as weak debtors. On the other hand long term interest rates in countries with stronger fiscal positions France, Germany, and Finland have enjoyed low rates as a consequence of a flight to quality.

And the argument that Japanese, or other Asians, are culturally averse to political competition is not historically true.

While previous prime ministers like Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir were not averse to lecturing, they lacked strategic cunning.

While previous prime ministers like Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir were not averse to lecturing, they lacked strategic cunning.

Naomi Klein Addicted to risk

Here an exporter faces two types of risk price risk and competitiveness risk.

Shouldn t they expect to face risk?

Managing Risk to Save the Poor

Do you want to risk it?

Do you want to risk it?

Do you want to risk that?

Do you want to risk that?

I'm not willing to risk that.

We need to take that risk.

We've got to take the risk.

We have to take the risk.

We're prepared to take that risk.

We decided to take a risk.

Environmental Risk

I don't want to risk losing it.

I don't like to run a risk.

I'm not willing to take that risk.

I don't want to risk my life.