But, given the risk of precipitating panic elsewhere, this newspaper does not advocate writing them down now.Last June Europe's politicians agreed that rescue funds could be used to recapitalise banks.
NEW YORK — Mr. Woodrow Wilson's talk to business men in Chicago on Saturday night [Jan.11] has excited just as much stir in the business world as his recent threat that he would "provide a gibbet as high as Hainan's" for any financier who might take advantage of Wall Street to precipitate a panic.
Very occasionally I think about doing something else and it precipitates a panic attack.
The American government chose not to rescue Lehman Brothers, a fact that stunned investors and precipitated a panic.
Most of all, it was the fast-moving events on that front that precipitated his panic to roll out his diversionary, over-the-top theatrics on Wednesday.
In the years immediately after 1890, a combination of pressures sharply reduced the amount of gold in the U.S. Treasury, precipitating a panic in the spring of 1893.
The prospect that the Fed might force the market (as well as politicians and consumers) to sober up, or at least to get by on a lower dose, precipitated a panic.
These early experiences may have precipitated the panic disorder and agoraphobia that would dog him through life, and shaped his opposition to attempting to regain Poland's independence by force of arms.
If it does, the ECB would precipitate the market panic it intends to prevent; if it doesn't, it will amass potentially unpayable debt.
Others increasingly warn of the risk of an "accident" — a bank run somewhere in the euro zone that spirals out of control, or the Greek government running out of money to pay salaries and pensions after paying back creditors — which could quickly precipitate into market panic and social unrest.
