BLAME In testimony before a House panel in March 2008, he faulted real estate speculators, rating agencies, a sharp decline in investor appetite for certain mortgages, and market psychology.
Explaining the shift in the global energy mix, Citi cites a "politically driven" decline in investor appetite for coal driving the move to lower carbon forms of energy.
Comments from contributors "identify several potential causes of this decline in buyers' appetite, with uncertainty over the upcoming referendum on the UK's membership of the EU by far the most prevalent suggestion", the report said.
When confronted with the choice of a one-stop shop or a specialist boutique, more clients are opting for focus.The stockmarket bubble disguised a long-term decline in the appetite of many firms for core strategic consulting, which prompted consultants to move into more marginal activities.
The volatility component of the UBS index, which was at its most risk-averse level since March, was the main driver of the decline in risk appetite, Palma said.
In "Risk Off", Andrew Haldane, who is responsible for developing the Bank of England's policy on financial stability, expressed his concern regarding the decline in investors' risk appetite, and urged policymakers to address it.
The relative decline in private equity's appetite for acquisitions coupled with the caution of trade buyers in what remains a still-insecure economic recovery leaves IPOs as a natural exit route".
A handful of state and federal subsidies, loans, and rebates have also eased Colorado energy companies down the renewable path, but as energy quotas are increasingly met, industry experts fear withering public investment will lead to a broad decline in the state's appetite for more.
In early imperial Rome, when the emperor Augustus put a tax on celibacy in response to anaemic marriage rates, he faced a spate of betrothals to underage women, an open revolt from his senators and a decline in his citizens' conjugal appetites.
