how we risk our money?t's happening right up here. >> in the mri, volunteers are presented with different choices, keep a small amount or risk it to win more. by changing the dollar amounts at risk and the dollar amounts that can be gained, scientists are able it see how different areas of the brain react as decisions are made. >> there's an area we're very interested. it's called door sal prefrontal cortex, a fancy way of saying the area in the middle, top and front of your brain. that part of the brain seems to act almost like a switch in a train yard or it's telling all the other parts of the brain that might contribute to a decision which ones are going to be active at any moment in time. what it does is it seems to switch to say a more risk averse and a risk-seeking mode, depending on what's going on in the task at any moment in time. >> 140 and one, two, three, four. okay? that's your payment for today. thank you. >> thank you. >> that was a great winning. >> so imaging technology can tell you a lot a

no risk. the risk in the system is identical. now the bank has told 1.6%. so my seven year old who i told about at the beginning the thing today, he's not doing decibels yet but if i asked him what would fannie mae-freddie mac have to hold, he probably would guess 2.4%. it was 45 basis points. that's half the amount, have to leverage. so double leverage. they were part of the financial system. no wonder they dominated. again we can thank basel for that. you can just go down the line and just see how, when things are relatively arbitrary and relatively coarse and set out without really a system criteria, how they can begin. a simple criteria, is not easy to implement with the fact that you have two identical worlds. they should have roughly similar requirement. and if one is less than the other, not surprisingly everyone is going to go as well. that's not written down anywhere as the gore into the and that's not in dodd-frank either. so when they look at what's going on right now, with the basel, the strong are you for having high capital requirements, the m

managed risk will help people. as far as fannie mae and freddie mac, the congressman knows when we were in control here and i was the chairman, which pushed hard for a reform of fannie and freddie. we got it out of committee. we pushed hard, we will continue to do that. i do not know what is going on in the house. i can tell you, we -- sooner or later, we hope to do something substantive with fannie or freddie. we recognize they are the only game in town as far as -- >> i remember that in 2005 and 2006. as i remember, your poinopponent was mr. oxley. >> he had a weaker bill. he must have helped him. >> people said i was in the minority. if tom delay was susceptible, we would not have gone to the war in a rock and he would not have gone to the dance show. that was when the republicans were in power, and we work together in 2008. we had cooperation. i think we stopped the hemorrhaging. if you look at the people that president bush put in power, they will tell you the problem we are facing is losses incurred before it

homogenizing ratings only corelate risk-taking and increase systemic risk. major shortcoming is dodd-frank does nothing to expand nrsro access to data in the ratings process. terms can access data on some forms of structured product but not enough. collateral loan obligations of a perfect example as detailed in my testimony. next week i will propose in a letter to the sec a simple yet wide reaching initiative to assist in the improvement of the industry. all nrsros should file an affirmative statement to the sec then they confirm or change each previously issued outstanding rating on a quarterly basis. this initiative would force firms to think more carefully about their initial ratings and ashore they stand by their product, promote confidence in the ratings process among users, make asset managers more responsible for understanding frequent rating -- inshore the sec has more performance data. effective reform will come with not stifling competition through compliance costs, removing reference from regulations that increased dependence on nrsros and avoidin

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pistol said way back in november of 2010 that we were in risk management -- business being a risk-based intelligent organization. that's what he's trying to achieve. i support that goal. do we have a plan from t.s.a. you could share would us to move towards that? >> i don't have is a plan today but i would recommend the committee work with administrative pistol -- >> can you provide us with an update from him on where you go? >> no. >> where you're going with that, a risk-based plan. >> i will tell you that he is working on a number of alternatives. and he hopes to announce something soon this summer. >> but we're looking forward to that. and you mentioned that most of the risk is coming in from out of the united states. for example, the shoe bomber mr. reed, am merstam, the diaper christmas day bomber, the london liquid, the yemen tonor. the last count i had, well, we had under 100 t.s.a. personnel overseas. it was really 54 when i checked. do you know what the number is now? >> i don't know off the top of my head. i'd have to get that to you. >> contact with the secretary of state and

with a huge risk of disasters in cascade, immense risk. so, we worked very hard for the finance minister worked very hard with the banks and insurance companies. not only the banks. insurance companies as well. on what could be a voluntary participation of the private sector. and we concluded that by spreading the loans over 30 years, by, bringing them to the level of european loans, plus, an indexing premium on greek growth there would be a system that each country could probably find at least interesting. the idea that we're not going to abandon greece. we're going to defend the euro. this is our interest, of us all. it is our interest. those who propose this folly that would be the exit out of the euro, it's a folly. it is something that is completely inane. why? because i remind you that france has a debt of 500 billion euros, in euros. if france or another country gets out of the euro, it's currency is going to be devalued but our debt remains in euros. going out of the euro would double or triple the debt of the country going out of

chantix has already been linked to an increased risk of suicidal thoughts and now to a higher risk of heart disease. we asked dr. jon lapook to tell us what we need to know about these new findings. >> reporter: today's study is worrisome news for the more than seven million americans who have taken chantix. a new analysis links the pill to a 72% increase in the risk of heart problems. johns hopkins dr. sonal singh led the research. >> it is causing the same problems we are trying to prevent. that's why it's not worth the risk. we need to prevent cardiac disease among smokers, not increase it. >> reporter: the review combines 14 studies involving more than 8,000 patients. while a 72% increased risk sounds alarming, a companion editorial entitled "is it a heart breaker?" notice that heart problems are still rare, occurring in only about 1% of patients taking chantix. the drug maker, pfizer, questions the way the analysis was conducted. dr. gail cawkwell is vice president of medical affairs for pfizer. >> we will continue to do a more in-depth look as the f.d.a. is asking us to do. to d

managed risk will help people. as far as fannie mae and freddie mac, the congressman knows when we were in control here and i was the chairman, which pushed hard for a reform of fannie and freddie. we got it out of committee. we pushed hard, we will continue to do that. i do not know what is going on in the house. i can tell you, we -- sooner or later, we hope to do something substantive with fannie or freddie. we recognize they are the only game in town as far as -- >> i remember that in 2005 and 2006. as i remember, your poinopponent was mr. oxley. >> he had a weaker bill. he must have helped him. >> people said i was in the minority. if tom delay was susceptible, we would not have gone to the war in a rock and he would not have gone to the dance show. that was when the republicans were in power, and we work together in 2008. we had cooperation. i think we stopped the hemorrhaging. if you look at the people that president bush put in power, they will tell you the problem we are facing is losses incurred before it

there has been some benefits shown with health risk. >> your heart. >> you have to weigh these risks and benefits. for example, again, it plays into what your actual risk is as an individual. if you have a high risk of breast cancer secondary to previous breast cancer or high familial risk, maybe you should cut down more on alcohol. if you are a normal risk with nothing that's really been known other than that, i think moderation is perfectly fine. >> you mentioned familial risks so i think the smart thing to do if you get together with family and friends either fourth of july or family reunion coming up to sit down and get a table for at least 15 minutes and take notes about family history about this. >> sure. it's unfortunate we don't learn these things about our families until it's almost too late. you will have a patient that comes in with a new diagnosis and you ask about familial history or family history actually now that i'm diagnosed and my mom told me her sister had breast cancer. you find out more unfortunately when it's too late. absolutely open communication with the fam

significantly reduce the risk that any kind of run would be likely to occur or systemic risk from these funds. nevertheless we do hear a discussion from time to time that there is also an interest in moving -- what concerns me about a floating net asset value is the complexity of a minister in this or keeping up with the paperwork and tax implications that could be complex and onerous to a large part of the financial system. my question is imposing the net asset value, is that under consideration or off the table? >> fsoc is taking an interest in a money-market fund issues. we do a complete overhaul of money-market funds for credit quality and liquidity standards a year ago and fairly universally apprised of being very helpful to build the resilience of money market funds and requiring reporting these so investors can become accustomed to the idea that value does fluctuate for money-market funds. we have discussed the issue and several times and held up public round table with all fsoc members in attendance to talk about how to present runs on money-market funds and what are the options

when you tax risk takers. remember, it's risk taking in this capitalist society that caroline evidently doesn't believe in. that risk taking is what creates innovation, innovation creates growth, new jobs, prosperity, higher incomes. risk takers, in this country we've got fire starters and fire builders. fire starters are the risk takers who build stuff and a whole group of people who work for risk takers. when you tax risk takers, you attack jobs, an unarguable fact. >> brenda: i want to hear what jonas has to say. >> i think that it's going to drag the economy, but don't see how it stops you from taking risk. new york and connecticut raising taxes and the real estate markets are hot compared fot rest of the country. job markets are pretty good compared to the rest of the country. you can handle a little of this and can't go bananas and close the deficits on the rich. you can learn what some of the states should do, cutting spending and raising taxes and so far it's working. >> brenda: gary b, is it? >> well,

central time. >> reporter: risk.ifficulty people went through and how scared they were in the transition from horses to cars? but you got to make these transitions. otherwise society doesn't move forward. >> reporter: so far, musk's spacex "falcon 9" rocket has performed well. on the last test, the rocket put a spacecraft called "dragon" into orbit. capsule landed back in the pacific. it was the first time anyone other than a government had successfully orbited a spacecraft and returned it to earth. >> we designed this to be super tough. you can beat the snot out of it and it will still work. >> reporter: next year musk hopes to begin carrying cargo to the international space station. eventually astronauts, a commercial company, replacing the space shuttle. but unless it's safe, nasa's administrator says no u.s. astronaut will be on board. >> i cannot allow them to put us in jeopardy by not focusing on crew safety and the like. that's my job. >> reporter: the stakes are high. there is no turning back. >> please welco

takers they can be very successful i happen to be a risk taker. i've certainly had some failures that turned out to be a success and i think it was definitely worth it now it was in ninety five when you revolutionized the visuals of the science i mean for us for ordinary people it was a revolution of the visuals and a science and you took a chance you took a risk what about scientists and space researchers now kept can they take a chance to gamble or are the stakes too high budgets to tie in it's becoming more difficult when funding is in there is greater pressure to come up with a result and of course it's very it's much easier to come up with a result when you don't take a risk when you're doing something where you already know it's likely to give you a positive result but of course a great discoveries are those in which you're completely unexpected and therefore you cannot anticipate and i believe for the progress of science it is essential that there be risk takers and i think it's important for the people in the political world to fund expens

, and it would be no risk whatsoever. this is a way of mitigating the risk by phasing in period we are currently in negotiations with shell energy. that is for energy supply and schedule coordinator services. we are also talking with noble america's about the customer care side of things, account management. again, this is a change from where policies were in 2007. we hope to have a single entity that would take on all of the supplies and performances we would need with zero risk to the city, before issuing our rfp, we got an ordinance that related to changing that. moving on briskly to the areas of risk allocation and the city's liability, one of the things we are getting by working with shell is we are getting to work with a credit or the entity -- a credit worthy entity. they are committing to a price, and we think that that commitment is a very firm one. on the flip side, the negotiations have raised the need for the power enterprise to have the appropriations to get the program up and started, and there is a few. one

, formula for pricing options, pricing models, value of risk, and risk of an investment.nk god the course ended in may of 2008 before lehman brothers went bankrupt. [laughter] not a single principle of finance that i taught was not violated by the people who were running these major constitutions. it was incredible. just one comment here and then a question. the course announcement was posted on the website of gw in december of 2007. this was an undergarage watt course -- undergraduate court. i was amazed. i got letters from three staffers at the federal reserve who were going to take this course. i couldn't believe it because there's no way they could get an mba degree, so clearly they knew something was brewing there, but looking at your book, i looked at references to goldman sachs. they lost every shady deal exposed -- for example, ripping off gadhafi i read in the "wall street journal," you know -- [laughter] someone made a joke that if we could get the major investment banks in china and russia and japan, we could cut our defense budget by $500 billion a year -- [la

some are subject to risk for -- risk retention and some that are not. the notion that holding 5% of the loans -- before 1986, you held 100%. in the business they said they can't do that. they could not do that because of they don't -- because they don't have capital. don't lend money you don't have. this editorial says the subprime loans are wonderful and you will drive low-income people out of the market. iran to this again in the last decade and before. for many people in the lower income brackets, decent rental housing is preferable to putting them into a home ownership situation which is precarious. i worked in one area of home ownership. you have an assault on the bill. you have this effort to undermine the rules on derivatives. the republicans want to postpone any new derivatives regulation including speculation until october of 2012. several publications noted the fear that american financial institutions have sold credit defaults loss on greek cadets. debt. we don't know how much says. is. the spokesman for the republicans on this has been jack

would you be at risk? sometimes we attribute at risk to perform characteristics. sometimes the environment. we adjust. growing up. i needed to leave the environment. i am talking straight up. to survive, i grew up on the streets. the word i did at chad. the number one book that's popular, what book do you think it is? i hear the bible. beautiful. what is it? i have heard that one too. you know what it is? it's called the art of seduction. the first section is called choose a victim. what has happened is this. as an educator. someone who works with gang units. we created oxymorons. we created good people who i think it's good to be bad. we teach them them that passing the standard is success. there is a difference. 3 words they taught me. do you think what 3 words. this is from their world, at riskness. you know what the 3 most powerful words are? i tend to think in love, faith. you know what they said? hate, jealousy and revenge. i am listening to that. i said, we need to go beyond that. what do you think strategically. i still remember. i went to a debut taunt ba

they own the credit risk already. tank of america, the likely it is your contractors mortgage is not even held by bank of america, it still biting mortgage-backed hold, and those investors have to be considered. the problem is bank of america is a service or who also owns the largest portfolio of second liens and home-equity lines. so there's risk to them on that, depending on what they do on the first mortgage. you're right that this is a problematic situation, and the government isn't interested in dealing with it. one of the things is before you can have in that example bank of america treat borrowers well, they need to be unconflicted in the relationship between the second lien that build on the balance sheet and the first lien that they service for people like you. >> first, thanks to much for writing the book. i have a couple of questions. right now and looks like fannie and freddie might be possible by the end of 2012 may be going into 2013 setting aside the 10% dividend that they might of the treasury, and at

risk retention, loans made without risk retention would be an exception, and not the rule. if people are convinced that you have a bifurcated market. with that, i'll be ready to respond to any questions or comments. >> with the one year anniversary of the bill passage comes out, what are the three most important outcomes from your perspectives? the best things that came out of the legislation. >> i got to say, i'm always puzzled by the three most or single most. nobody lives his or her life until i'm asked by the media. the sophie's choice that you are always asking us to make. i will say there's several important pieces. i think -- i've just touched on them. risk retention, derivatives, now it's a combination. it was loan -- the loans made without any consideration or without -- without adequate consideration of risks. they were the bullets. the guns were the derivatives. and both sides of the derivatives. the derivatives on the positive side, the credit default swaps on the negative side. whatever was he made a bunch of loans that shouldn't have been made. we had sophisti

took some wild risks when i was young. but i was still taking a risk with my cholesterol.h cholesterol may be at increased risk of heart attack. diet and exercise weren't enough for me. i stopped kidding myself. i've been eating healthier, exercising more, and now i'm also taking lipitor. if you've been kidding yourself about high cholesterol, stop. along with diet, lipitor has been shown to lower bad cholesterol to 60 percent. lipitor is fda approved to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in patits who have heart diase or risk factors for heart disease. [ female annncer ] lipitor is not for evyone, including people with liver problems and women who are nursing, pregnant or may become pregnant. you need simple blood tests to check for liver problems. tell your doctor if y are taking other medications or if you have any muscle pain or weakness. this may be a sign of a rare but serious side effect. lets go... haha. if you have high cholesterol, you may be at increased risk of heart attack and stroke. don't kid yourself. talk to your doctor about your risk a about lipi

other risks? not surprisingly, smoking. if you have high blood pressure. if you're overweight or have diabetes, they believe your risk is greater. and, of course, the one that always sends us grabbing for the crossword puzzle. if you don't regularly s smulate your mind. the good news is that these are all things that can be treated or change. which is why today's news was viewed as a call to action. >> i'm very excited about this study. it's not to complete answer. but take the things you can do something about and do that and you'll be better for it. >> reporter: if the researchers are right, and this s st of seven risk factors really do play a big role in developing alzheimer's, then there's reason to hope. the researchers say if everybody reduced their risk factors by 25% -- smoking 25% less, exercising 25% more -- then half a million new cases of alzheimer's could be prevented. so, are you telling us today that you believe that alzheimer's disease can be prevented? >> if you look at it as a part of a comprehensive look at brain health, yes. >> reporter

this is a key risk element for us. i am inclined without further discussion to look at something which is more conservative -- a more conservative rollout plan that would cover that kind of risk. >> it is important to realize that some things can be mitigated. that is what we are doing with the program. >> 85% -- what does that mean? >> the firmed and shaped are resources were you take a intermittent resource, these are regulatorily definied. the wind power works when it is windy and the sun power works when the sun is out. when you are trying to get a block to try and cover when people are using their appliances and such -- >> how do we anticipate forecasting? >> we have historic data and we are forecasting the load. since we have so many -- is accurate. >> 30%, 40%, 50%? >> it will be in the 90's. >> commissioner torres: in the 90's? i did not think we have the technology for that. >> forecasting how much energy is needed at certain times of day? >> commissioner torres: yes. >> we have been given information and it v

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>> those are the highest risk areas. we can work with our hospital staff to determine if there is another area to look at. supervisor mirkarimi: just to return back to the discussion -- i think you are getting the drift that it's hard for us to fathom a $13 an hour security guard would actually be more empowered that a sworn peace officer that would be a member of the surest part by 2 has been the primary safety person inside our public institutions. when the testimony last week by the department of public health suggested, asserted there would be more authority given to a security guard, i did ask the surest apartment and i have talked with legal counsel to understand what and how we would be able to rely on that difference of authority in a rent a guard verses a peace officer. i can see where there might be a splitting of hairs, but i walked away from my query of them thinking our gut feeling is right. a peace officer unquestionably is more empowered statutory away to be able to do what's -- statutory early to be able

from putting people at nothing how much of a gamble was it a big gamble really i've always been a risk taker and our life when i was a child first thing i did when i got my first job after school was to deliver newspapers i saved up money and got a telescope i was interested in astronomy even at that age. twelve years old first thing i did was on a dark night i took it out to see how far i could see. fifty years later when i became director of the institute that operates hubble space telescope it seemed to me to do the same things scientifically looked to see just how far out that could see galaxies. there had been study and scientific studies done before the launch of hubble trying to predict the important scientific problems that it would help solve and imaging distant galaxies was not one of them and there were valid reasons why many astronomers thought that hubble would do many great things but it probably would not make much of a contribution in studying distant galaxies i question that. and i thought it was sufficiently important that i was willing to take a recess and point hubb

of cell phone use and how to reduce those risks. i want to thank supervisors avalos for your leadership on this issue and the committee's consideration on this ordinance. i am happen to answer any questions you have, and i also have a couple of members from my team here as well. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you very much, thank you for your presentation. why don't we go on to public comment. i have a number of cards here. [reading names] if you heard your name, please come forward to provide public comment. >> good morning, supervisors. good morning, public. i just have a brief statement i would like to say. i just want to note that this legislation would make it more difficult for local small- business owners to survive in this economy. my comment is simply more general in nature than specific to this legislation, which i believe is a good deal appeared however, small businesses and agribusinesses are struggling in this economy, and with the proposed legislation and other laws coming on, the burden is more and more on the sm

if they did not say, they lived it, was take a risk. my dad took a risk when he came to l.a. it was not like he succeeded right away. it is what holds people back. i really learned a lot from sports. you fail so much more than you succeed. it helped me when i got in the acting business. i left so many auditions when i did not relate risk, where i played it a little safe. then when i did not get the part, i was always able to say well, i did not really try. if i had given another 10%, i probably would have gotten the job. but risk and fail and pick yourself up and start over. tavis: the thing i have always it mired about actors -- admired about actors in this town is that you hear a lot more no than yes. how do you develop a constitution that allows you to deal with that all the time? >> pitbull talk to me all the time, it young actors -- people talk to me all the time. i tell them to first developed an appetite for failure. your not going to be right every time. you are not going to perform well every time. if you get a screen test, you will know is a big opportunity. the ner

risk if you let the u.s. treasury act is the battering ram for the wall street firms that insure the risk and say you think there's a risk we're going to make sure that all the risk is on that debtor and if the debtor can't pay the creditors don't loose. the insurance companies don't loathe us because we're going to take it out of greece out of the park and give us your island give us your o.-port and your water supply your sewer system for us to put tollbooths on the depth of a kind of risk that the us is talking about. greece's risking is a wet back into something worse than it suffered under the out of an empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is the i.m.f. solvent. you say solvent is it was almost out of business two years ago when it had only turkey is the final client what is saved the i.m.f. has been the wall street crisis that's put it back into business essential is that a man of economy just the i m s a has been called in like a firm would call in a group of mafia assassin

is there still a risk the u.s. credit may get downgraded anyway? >> well, it looks like that. >> reporter: but larry kantor, chief of research at barclay's capital, believes the world will still want to invest in the u.s. >> even if they downgraded, people still believe the u.s. will pay its debts. >> reporter: but a cut in the credit rating could still have expensive consequences, says economist michael darded. >> the risk will be that a downgrade would push up interest rates. >> reporter: that could add as much as $100 billion to the nation's annual borrowing costs. it could also raise the cost of mortgages and other consumer loans. countries with triple "a" ratings, on average, play just below 3% to borrow. countries with double "a" ratings pay three quarters more. japan's rating was downgraded to double "a," but because of a stagnant economy it still pays a lower interest rate than the united states. >> but a debt downgrade certainly doesn't help things. i mean, at a minimum it throws an added element of uncertainty into the mix of an already u

but it's not our risk if we're telling you what to do but you are different risk isn't a risk if you let the u.s. treasury act is the battering ram for the wall street firms that insure the rest and say you think there's a risk we're going to make sure that all the rescues on that that are in it or can't pay the creditors don't lose the insurance companies don't close because we're going to take it out of greece out but the parthenon give us your island give us your. ports and your water supply your sewer system for us to put tollbooths not that that kind of risk that the u.s. is talking about is real but greece's risking is a wet back into something worse than it suffered under the out of an empire and seventeenth and eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is the i.m.f. all the paper and what you say solvent is that it was almost out of business two years ago and it had only target. the final client what is save the i.m.f. has been the wall street crisis best put it back into business essentially is that any minute economist i am as it has been called in. a firm would call in a group m

took some wild risks when i was young. but i was still taking a risk with my cholesterol. anyone with high cholesterol may be at increased risk of heart attack. diet and exercise weren't enough for me. i stopped kidding myself. i've been eating healthier, exercising more, and now i'm also taking lipitor. if you've been kidding yourself about high cholesterol, stop. along with diet, lipitor has been shown to lower bad cholesterol 39 to 60 percent. lipitor is fda approved to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in patients who have heart disease or risk factors for heart disease. [ female announcer ] lipitor is not for everyone, including people with liver problems and women who are nursing, pregnant or may become pregnant. you need simple blood tests to check for liver problems. tell your doctor if you are taking other medications or if you have any muscle pain or weakness. this may be a sign of a rare but serious side effect. lets go... haha. if you have high cholesterol, you may be at increased risk of heart attack and stroke. don't kid yourself. talk to your doctor