Word: riskier
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GLASSMAN O.K., something is changing. What is changing is that people are at last beginning to act in a rational way. They are bidding up the prices of stocks because, my gosh, stocks in the long term are no riskier than bonds...They have learned something about stocks, which I think Bob would admit and we certainly believe is true. For all these years, they have acted in a kind of irrational way. Now they have learned something, which happens to be true, which is that in the long term, stocks are not all that volatile, and they return more...
HASSETT The equity risk premium has declined. Let's define this, by the way. Equity risk premium is the extra return that investors demand because they think stocks are riskier than the benchmark [30-year Treasury] bond. O.K., it has declined roughly from 7% to 3%. [A decline drives up prices.] Alan Greenspan says, "The question is, Is this decline temporary or is it permanent?" We offer a third alternative we think is a reasonable alternative, which is, Will it continue [to decline] to what we believe to be its reasonable resting place, which is around zero? If stocks...
...Earlier in your career, you experimented with riskier films like Maurice and Sirens. You virtually built a cult following - but can you reconcile that early work with what you do now or has your career momentum taken you to an entirely different standard for accepting projects...
...Tech stocks] are more volatile, so they're more exciting to watch," says Fan Wu '01, co-chair of the CWF. "We aren't so much into traditional, safe, stable companies. We're riskier than most clubs...
Maybe. At their stepped-up pace, the government scientists should complete their road map of the 23 pairs of human chromosomes by late June. But there are folks out there who could spoil the victory party. Scientist and entrepreneur Craig Venter's company, Celera, using a riskier "shotgun" approach to plow through all those letters, is working at a furious pace as well. Only two weeks ago, he announced that Celera had completed mapping the genome of Drosophila melanogaster, a.k.a. the fruit fly, a favorite tool of lab scientists. While the fruit fly genome is far less complex than...