At the time, the securities were rated AAA, so it seemed at first that A.I.G. was not taking on inordinate risk.
This case raises several important issues: First, patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) (and particularly ESRD) are predisposed to an inordinate risk of SCA; second, the factors leading to SCA in CKD are unique; and lastly, it is of paramount importance to have basic life support training, crash carts and defibrillators in dialysis units.
The Times coverage of the casing scandal is fairly extensive, yet the only outside authorities it cites are Greg McCormack, director of the Petroleum Extension Service at the University of Texas at Austin, and "several other engineers" who agree that BP ran an inordinate risk.
Experts have warned that a "no-deal" scenario would pose inordinate risks to the country's economy, paralyzing trade, creating havoc at ports of entry and wrecking supply chains used to outfit everything from supermarkets to hospitals.
Some critics, including the most noted hedge-fund manager of all, George Soros, argue that this structure creates incentives to take inordinate risks, because managers share the upside if the risks pay off but not the downside should the risky strategies fail.
Second, how AIG's "small" derivatives unit located in London managed to obscure its accounts, be governed by lax regulatory oversight, and take inordinate risks that effectively brought down AIG's empire of 100,000 employees in 130 countries, accelerating the global financial crisis.
If you want the long-term benefits of owning stocks without having to worry constantly about when to get in and out, you'll be way ahead financially and psychologically in a fund that achieves good results without taking inordinate risks.
To that end, new offshore centres will emerge – the bets are already on Malta, Mauritius and the Seychelles – as trailblazers for the second coming of offshore capitalism, and they will give those hungry for profit and inordinate wealth a margin of risk and reward not available in the slumbering onshore world.
We seem to be willing to take unwise risks and spend inordinate amounts of money to rid ourselves of what is nearly always a mild, self-limiting illness.
Although it didn't affect how we invested our capital, I feel like I spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about the risk of imminent corrections.
To test anything in the street – as we did with our Cities Unlocked collaboration with Microsoft UK and Guide Dogs, to create a device to help the visually impaired navigate city streets more easily – takes an inordinate amount of stakeholder wrangling, negotiation, planning and risk assessments.
