Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Before the subprime mess began, no one talked about the danger that mortgage derivatives posed to banks. Now, there is not much talk about what could bring the banking industry to its knees again. That talk has gone away and been replaced by a childish hopefulness that decades of overleveraging can be fixed by a few months of losses and hundreds of billions of dollars in government...
...bonuses for top executives at Citi are particularly surprising because the company is typically seen as the most in danger of failing among the nation's largest banks. Citi has received more government assistance than any other bank: $45 billion in cash infusions and over $300 billion in loan guarantees since late October. By comparison, none of Bank of America's top five executives will receive a cash bonus...
...recently canceled, source of Washington outrage - is a triviality. The AIG bonuses, on the other hand, are emblematic of the heads-I-win-tails-you-lose nature of Wall Street pay. This incentive structure was a major cause of our current crisis. It is an Important Thing, and the danger in the current Washington frenzy to do something is not that it will go too far but that it won't go far enough...
...injury is. An initial concussion, neurologists are now learning, can make a second concussion more likely, and the second injury, in turn, increases the risk of subsequent ones over the years. That's precisely the reason some NFL players become known as more concussion-prone than others. Worse, the danger is cumulative: later concussions may become not just more likely, but also more serious. "A sequence of mild events - even just two or more - can equal one big hit," Shealy says. That may have been what happened in Richardson's case, though no one has said publicly...
...losses in the Bavarian state elections that Zu Guttenberg was thrown into the spotlight. Last November the rising star won his party's top job. When Michael Glos quit his job as Economy Minister last month, the CSU decided to replace him with Zu Guttenberg. (See pictures of the danger of printing money in Germany...