It's riskier than it looks.

The unknown is perceived to be riskier than the familiar.

This makes the bottom tray riskier and the top tray safer.

During those months of political dithering, US treasuries became a riskier asset.

The Juncker plan targets, in particular, infrastructure projects, which are often riskier than other investments.

Lending to foreign governments is in many ways inherently riskier than unsecured private debt or junk bonds.

For starters, they have moved into riskier credit instruments, resulting in a compression of corporate bond spreads.

So why do international financial markets rate Venezuela as riskier than all its neighbors, save for bankrupt Argentina?

Such changes put pressure on universal banks to abandon riskier investment bank activities in order to operate more freely.

It is much riskier to give a 50,000 dollar loan than it is to give a 500 dollar loan.

It will merely make life riskier and more expensive for them, pushing them even further to the margins of society.

As a result, actively managed funds typically do worse than passive funds, with returns after fees even lower and riskier.

But the funds contributed were then invested in riskier assets that included trust loans to companies such as property developers.

Less money comes in and the bottom tray may not get filled. This makes the bottom tray riskier and the top tray safer.

CGAP notes that the principle task of donors is to identify and bet on promising but riskier MFIs, leaving known winners' to commercial investors.

As the United Nations takes on more complex and riskier mandates, the safety and security of United Nations troops and other personnel have become increasingly important.

We divvy up the stream of payments on these home loans further into tranches of varying risk, compensating holders of the riskier kind with higher interest rates.

In the US side, the integrity of sovereign debt was kept in question for too long. During those months of political dithering, US treasuries became a riskier asset.

In particular, the fact that investment banks, which were propelled into riskier activities by these policy changes, were entirely outside the regulatory net was a recipe for disaster.

With so many risks in so many places, investors, not surprisingly, will eventually prize liquidity in their portfolios, while shunning riskier fixed assets again when these tail risks materialize.

WMPs were commonly marketed to individuals as alternatives to deposit accounts. But the funds contributed were then invested in riskier assets that included trust loans to companies such as property developers.

The truth is that we have already exhausted so much of the easily accessible fossil fuels that we have already entered a far riskier business era, the era of extreme energy.

As Edgar L. Smith wrote in The Atlantic Monthly back in 1924, when the principal risks are macroeconomic, bonds are no safer than diversified portfolios of stocks in fact, they are riskier.

The imposition of higher capital requirements on riskier investments has pushed financial institutions into holding government debt, which in turn means that they have less money available to lend for productive investment.

But other things were not equal. In particular, the fact that investment banks, which were propelled into riskier activities by these policy changes, were entirely outside the regulatory net was a recipe for disaster.

Consumer or market driven demand the kind most of us think of when we hear the word is far less predictable, and therefore much riskier, than state sponsored demand of the sort that landed a man on the moon.

High saving Asian households and dollar hoarding foreign central banks produced a global savings glut, which pushed real interest rates into negative territory, in turn stoking the US housing bubble while sending financiers on ever riskier ventures with borrowed money.

F 15N Sea Eagle The F 15N was a carrier capable variant proposed in the early 1970s to the U.S. Navy as an alternative to the heavier and, at the time, considered as riskier technology program, the Grumman F 14 Tomcat.

And there's very illegal hustles, which you smuggle in, you get smuggled in, drugs, pornography, cell phones, and just as in the outer world, there's a risk reward tradeoff, so the riskier the enterprise, the more profitable it can potentially be.

The big banks dared to make riskier loans because they had started repackaging loans and selling them to others as securities. They sold them to each other, to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and they sold them to Norway, to Germany and to China.

It ain't any riskier than waiting around here for a break... and this is the country where the nuggets of gold are crying for you... to take them out of the ground, make them shine in coins... on the fingers and necks of swell dames.

The US proposals, on the other hand, would make universal banking far harder, in part because they aim to ring fence depository institutions that pose a systemic risk to the financial system. Such changes put pressure on universal banks to abandon riskier investment bank activities in order to operate more freely.

Then we enable these loans to be pooled and packaged into securities that can be sold to investors, reducing risk in the process. We divvy up the stream of payments on these home loans further into tranches of varying risk, compensating holders of the riskier kind with higher interest rates.

As Haldane notes, even the celebrated Volcker rule, intended to build a better wall between more mundane commercial banking and riskier proprietary bank trading, has been hugely watered down as it grinds through the legislative process. The former Federal Reserve chairman s simple idea has been co opted and diluted through hundreds of pages of legalese.