What is ‘Take A Flier’
Take a flier is the slang term for a decision to invest in highly speculative investments.
Explaining ‘Take A Flier’
When an investor is taking a flier, he or she is knowingly acquiring a high-risk, speculative instrument that may end up with them taking a bath.
Further Reading
- The changing landscape of the European financial services sector – www.sciencedirect.com [PDF]
- Following the herd or not?: Patterns of renewal in the Netherlands and the UK – www.sciencedirect.com [PDF]
- Financial factors in business fluctuations – www.nber.org [PDF]
- An exploration into the economic impact of industrial development versus conservation on western public lands – www.tandfonline.com [PDF]
- Co‐evolution in strategic renewal behaviour of British, Dutch and French financial incumbents: Interaction of environmental selection, institutional effects and … – onlinelibrary.wiley.com [PDF]
- A Guide (not only) for Economics Dictionaries – unora.unior.it [PDF]
- Economic deregulation: Days of reckoning for microeconomists – www.jstor.org [PDF]
- Lone eagles and high fliers in rural producer services – ageconsearch.umn.edu [PDF]
- “Control frauds” as financial super-predators: How “pathogens” make financial markets inefficient – www.sciencedirect.com [PDF]