risk-taking

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His all-Oxford intellectual formation comes out of the post-“Great Financial Crisis” macro-finance school that views financial crises as driven by leverage cycles, liquidity spirals and risk-taking channels as much as by the traditional business cycle.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

“The first is an excess of speculative risk-taking that skews the distribution of market outcomes to the downside,” he said.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

Businesses championed new technologies in a bout of risk-taking with few equivalents in a region dominated by older industries and ambivalent about tech.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

Douglas Rintoul, chief executive and artistic director at the New Wolsey, said its success was "a powerful reminder that risk-taking new work is being created in regional theatres".

From BBC • May 10, 2026

Duane wondered if his risk-taking had gone too far.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el