Why traders ignore risks and go full speed ahead
Incentives often drive excessive risk-taking, while caution is punished
Many times in my career, I have seen traders and business leaders flying towards risk like moths to a flame. When some of them eventually blow up, recriminations fly. After all, it is easy to condemn such behaviour in hindsight and accuse the failed risk-takers of recklessness, incompetence and addiction to speculation.
There is, however, a more charitable explanation for why certain market players act this way, which also offers us an opportunity to look critically at the foundations of the
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