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The gold market is small and volatile.
Pakistan versus India is a devastating conflict-in-waiting, and North Korea and Iran remain volatile sources of concern.
Their new-found power in this volatile region therefore represents a major challenge to both the old Sunni ruling establishments - outside Iran - and to the United States.
The former is sure to usher in a highly volatile future; the latter would further entrench the Fed’s new mandate – one that undermines any semblance of central-bank independence.
As a result, gold can be very volatile – upward and downward – at the peak of a crisis.
While gold prices may temporarily move higher in the next few years, they will be very volatile and will trend lower over time as the global economy mends itself.
But small countries’ economic growth is often more volatile – a tendency that younger states must learn to contain if they are to prosper in the long term.
Trump is known to be volatile and impulsive, but so far his major advisers have restrained him.
The reasons for this have not changed: rising demand for energy, alongside concerns about climate change, volatile fossil-fuel prices, and the security of energy supplies.
Second, the volatile “carry trade” is notoriously difficult to measure, because most of it is conducted through derivatives in options, forwards, and swaps, which are treated as off-balance sheet – that is, as net numbers that are below the line in accounting terms.
America the RecklessMILAN – The world’s developed countries face growth and employment shortfalls, while developing countries are confronting huge challenges in adapting to increasingly volatile capital flows while adjusting their growth patterns to sustain economic development.
Dam protests can often be volatile.
The so-called “core” CPI, which excludes volatile energy and food prices, rose (though only by 1.8%).
Fifth, and finally, major holders of reserves must agree to deploy them in a way aimed at maintaining global financial stability and preventing excessively volatile exchange-rate and capital movements.
Portfolio investment, often called “hot money" because of its volatile nature, can increase the economy's vulnerability to the vagaries of international finance.
Such a volatile ruling elite cannot be counted on to be consistent from now on.
The new government’s effort to share power with political forces in Myanmar’s volatile regions, and thus weaken local warlords, clearly contributed to the decision to halt construction.
There is a basic lesson: “Markets with Chinese characteristics” are as volatile and hard to control as markets with American characteristics.
Reorienting production to domestic consumption would be difficult under any circumstances; a downturn in global trade, increasingly volatile commodity prices, and falling aid and investment flows don’t help.
Even when average inflation was modest (as in the 1950s and 1960s), it was still more volatile.
Inevitably, the situation would degenerate into a volatile mess, with EU member states pitted against one another, and populists commanding center stage.
But, if long-term US interest rates rise too fast, or policy shifts are not communicated well enough, or markets become volatile, capital flows could quickly plummet – possibly by more than 50% for a few months.
In a volatile, “post-truth” media environment, blaming the government or insisting that globalization is good will likely backfire.
FDI flows, which are less volatile than other capital flows, remained by far the largest, accounting for nearly 60% of emerging markets’ total inflows in 2012.
But Iran is not the only potentially volatile country with nuclear ambitions.
Lack of rain in the region and volatile global food prices have made a bad situation worse.
If, however, less trading makes markets more volatile and unpredictable, taxing short-termism could turn out to be a cure worse than the disease.
Third, governments must carefully manage the transition to higher carbon prices, in particular where taxes interact with volatile commodity prices.
We are tentative, however, because commodity markets are volatile.
In almost every area of major power rivalry, potentially volatile issues are compartmentalized, while cooperation elsewhere continues.
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