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

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

She plunged into Rothschild life, telling an interviewer she identified with their risk-taking and stretching limits.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

McCandless, in his fashion, merely took risk-taking to its logical extreme.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer