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ENVIRONMENT: All of the naturally occurring stuff that came with the planet, before it's been altered, extracted, transformed, or used up for production. It includes the air, water, land, vegetation, and wildlife.
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RISK The quantitative probability of different future outcomes occurring. The assignment of probabilities can be subjective (based on a "feeling") or objective (based on historical data). Risk is related to the concept of uncertainty, which is simply not knowing what the future holds. People have three alternative preferences when confronting risk -- risk aversion, risk neutrality, and risk loving. Risk aversion is key to the provision of insurance.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time surfing the Internet looking to buy either a wall poster commemorating Thor Heyerdahl's Pacific crossing aboard the Kon-Tiki or decorative garden figurines. Be on the lookout for crowded shopping malls.
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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
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"The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends. " -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman
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EGARCH
Exponential Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity
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