The root cause of the financial crisis was a pervasive culture of rampant risk-taking and greed, combined with unchecked power.
INVESTORS shifted from full-blown fear as the stock market plummeted in 2008 to a mood of rampant risk-taking after the market took off in March 2009.
Sunlight is a great disinfectant - In the age of rampant cyber risk and unwanted disclosure, privacy is a luxury.
In the aftermath of the Asian economic crisis of the late 1990s, the Clinton administration pressed a series of measures through the Group of 7 industrial nations, arguing that many elements of the collapse of Asian markets could have been avoided had regulators been more experienced, corruption less rampant, and risks more transparent.
Unless we break the ugly trends of big money in politics and rampant consumerism, we risk winning economic productivity at the price of our humanity.
What could give us a double dip recession now: a Japanese-style deflation by Alan Greenspan at the Fed; tax increases by the new Congress and major tax hikes by most of the states; effectively abolishing stock options, which are a critical instrument for startups; letting the trial lawyers effectively make it a crime for a business to take an unsuccessful risk; rampant protectionism, etc….
By any standard, it risks rampant injustice.
"It is", he wrote, "an alliance whereby the elites collude to pillage the masses," leading to "political corruption, social inequality, financial risks, rampant evil forces, and moral degeneration".
Otherwise, we risk having rampant counterfeiting operations continually undermining global economic progress.
Both armies had suffered terribly from disease during the Vicksburg campaign, and he was well aware that the risk of rampant infection was heightened during the summer months.
