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Re:Starting an Airline by tikhonj on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @03:03PM (#6439992)
Reward without risk is the usual definition of arbitrage. Some people make good money that way.

Of course, you can construe any activity to have some risk. After all, there's always the possibility that your currency collapses, or something. However, ignoring that sort of possibility, risk is not necessary to make money in a capitalist system.

Re:Starting an Airline by ianstallings on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @03:38PM (#6440212)
Hrm, a valid point and I would add that the risk in arbitrage is so very low because they basically only face systemic risk. Risk of financial crisis, etc. I never really thought about that until now.