It would then be cheap for depositors to house money with well run banks, and then more expensive to transact with ones thought to take on too much risk.
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While employers' 401(k) plans are subject to punitive regulations, lest they allow you to take on too much "risk, " employers are allowed to offer their own stock among the investment options.
With humans, if we get too little sleep, have a poor diet, and take on too much pressure, our stress levels rise and we succumb to ailments our otherwise healthy immune system could easily handle.
The theory behind Glass-Steagall (and GS-lite measures like the Volcker Rule and the swaps pushout provision of Dodd-Frank) is that banks with insured deposits are subject to moral hazard, and will take on too much risk.
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Financial liberalisation is supposed to help households to borrow in bad times and so smooth out consumption, but again it is a two-edged sword: it also makes it easier for firms and households to take on too much debt during booms, which may exacerbate subsequent downturns.
Reckless traders take on way too much risk and the position in a stock, bond or ginned-up derivative du jour collapses.
At Fimat, Mr. Roseman warned the company not to take too much risk on any one client, said a person familiar with the matter.
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If an endurance race is too much to take on, the Irish Triathlon website lists many races that can be done in teams, as relays or with more manageable distances.
E-mail and instant messaging are not universally bad, he says, but if we rely on them too much and don't take the time to interact with people on a personal level, we will pay the price.
All that said, the banks that regard themselves as strongest have a particular incentive to resist pressure from the Bank of England and the Treasury not to take too much of the money on offer in tomorrow's auction and in the so-called Funding for Lending scheme that will be launched next month.
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Brignull says too much focus on testing can take away from the focus on developing a respectable and high-quality brand.
Bell will have a point to prove if he returns as expected but Vaughan has warned him not to put too much pressure on himself and take the lead of some of England's other players.
Try not to eat out at restaurants too much, take taxis or spend frivolously on clothes.
At the age of 14, Higgins arrived in England to become a jockey - but he put on too much weight and instead decided to take up snooker.
So what Greece urgently needs is a pro-European, pro-reform alliance, without too much PASOK and ND baggage, to take on Tsipras's shallow dream.
Americans are entitled to the benefit of their bargain when buying health insurance, and asking the insurers to spend 80% of what they take from us in premiums on our care does not seem like too much to ask.
The biggest problem is patients on Vicodin or Percocet, a similar combo, who take too much.
Stock ETFs are baskets of stocks that give investors a way to take advantage of an industry trend or geographic market without betting too much on one company.
Second, and perhaps more important, the new review covers only expenditure from April 2001, too late to have much impact on an election likely to take place that year.
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Mears is at his best when running in the loose, taking on players, passing and supporting, but he cannot afford to take too much ball into contact as he will get turned over.
He called on the International Cricket Council to take responsibility for the policing of corruption from national cricket boards, who were under too much pressure to punish corrupt players.
Capano says the deposit law in his state places too much of the burden of recycling on grocers, who have to provide space and machines to take the bottles back.
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