systemic risk
noun
: the risk that the failure of one financial institution (such as a bank) could cause other interconnected institutions to fail and harm the economy as a whole
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Content by this author: Beijing’s Debt Dilemma China’s ballooning corporate debt remains the number one systemic risk to global economic recovery.
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Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
That shift comes at a time when the U.S. economy is healthy, suggesting that the problems in the office market may not pose a systemic risk to the financial system.
—Julie Creswell, New York Times, 6 June 2024
But Channel doesn’t see a systemic risk to the housing market.
—Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 5 May 2024
At some point soon, the best proprietary models will cross into this systemic risk category.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2024
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Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
That shift comes at a time when the U.S. economy is healthy, suggesting that the problems in the office market may not pose a systemic risk to the financial system.
—Julie Creswell, New York Times, 6 June 2024
But Channel doesn’t see a systemic risk to the housing market.
—Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 5 May 2024
At some point soon, the best proprietary models will cross into this systemic risk category.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2024
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systemic risk
noun
sys·tem·ic risk
sis-ˈte-mik- 
: the risk that the failure of one financial institution (as a bank) could cause other interconnected institutions to fail and harm the economy as a whole
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