risk-taking
Americannoun
adjective
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It showed that the world’s largest economy wasn’t inevitable but was built over 250 years through ingenuity, exploitation, ambition, luck, government choices, private risk-taking and constant reinvention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The problem was that the idea that the Fed would act in a market crisis encouraged ever more flagrant risk-taking on Wall Street.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Summan says one reason for slow progress on representation is down to risk-taking.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
His all-Oxford intellectual formation comes out of the post-“Great Financial Crisis” macro-finance school that views financial crises as driven by leverage cycles, liquidity spirals and risk-taking channels as much as by the traditional business cycle.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
But, as Forbes magazine has stated, “America’s culture, which fosters entrepreneurship and risk-taking, is the key ingredient that allows it to be one of the most innovative nations on earth.”
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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