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But, more important, the outcome could mark a turning point for the wider – and increasingly volatile – Middle East.
Economic activity is thus even more volatile than commodity prices, and much of the gains made in a boom unravels in the bust that follows.
In the US, the core inflation rate (which strips out changes in volatile energy and food prices) was 1.6% over the last 12 months.
But in an era when technological innovation is once again outpacing education, the effort to provide everybody with an opportunity to learn must not only be redoubled; it must also be retooled for an increasingly unstable and volatile world.
Today, it is about providing students with the tools to navigate an increasingly uncertain, volatile world.
Emerging economies today are more fragile and volatile than in the recent past.
Given an expanded mandate and a much larger balance sheet, the International Monetary Fund, with advance notification, could in principle reliably act to stabilize volatile international capital flows, buying time for more orderly domestic responses.
Two-thirds of proven reserves are in the Persian Gulf, one of the world’s most volatile regions.
That is little different from the underlying rate of so-called core inflation (which excludes the CPI’s volatile food and energy components), currently running at 2-2.2%, depending on which measure one chooses.
Israelis grudgingly accept that the country and its geopolitical situation are relatively stable, especially in view of its immediate neighborhood – a burning Syria, a smoldering Egypt, and a volatile Lebanon.
North Korea, with its volatile and mercurial regime, is another source of concern.
After all, with a regime as volatile as North Korea’s, patience is never a virtue.
On the contrary, electorates everywhere seem more volatile than anything else, with voters prepared to change their preferences from one poll to the next.
As long as winners with razor-thin majorities, once in office, steer a middle course, they are more likely to remain acceptable to an electorate that is more volatile than divided.
A volatile electorate can replace last time’s winner, but both can try to persuade voters and govern without having to go to extremes to gain a majority.
Against this background, the last thing the world needs is a volatile and unabashedly dishonest US president, much less one who likes to play with matches.
But it is extremely undesirable for government spending to have to be as volatile as it would be if it had to cover for the ineffectiveness of monetary policy.
The volatile stock market and the renminbi’s “surprise” depreciation are signs of imminent economic collapse, according to this view, as risky investments and high levels of government debt put the brakes on decades of turbo-charged output growth.
Close cousins included targeting the price level instead of the inflation rate, and targeting core inflation (the CPI minus volatile food and energy prices).
Interbank lending rates are slowly coming down, but they are still far higher than they should be, share prices continue to be volatile, and conditions in global markets remain fragile.
The area’s volatile situation provides Pakistan’s government an additional argument to insist that all refugees be repatriated – because, given their complicated tribal loyalties, they may constitute a domestic security threat.
Instead, India is saddled with highly volatile leader-based groups.
But it has a lot to lose if it aggravates an already volatile political situation in its maritime backyard by intervening militarily.
Flows of foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio equity, and portfolio debt to emerging markets reached record highs, with portfolio debt, the most volatile and most sensitive to sudden shifts in investor sentiment, growing the fastest.
Energy subsidies – so ingrained in the GCC economies – distort consumption and production patterns; defeat government attempts at economic diversification; and increase vulnerability to volatile international energy prices.
In a highly integrated world of highly volatile prices and volumes, flexibility also implies the capacity to intervene and actively manage the exchange rate.
Afghanistan is a stark warning of what happens when the world turns its back on an impoverished country in a volatile region.
But lack of progress in such countries threatens to make Europe a continent divided: half a fortress of the rich, the other a volatile cauldron of the poor.
With Suharto’s accession to power, Indonesia shifted almost overnight from being a strong voice for neutrality and anti-imperialism, actively courting the attention of the Soviet Union and Communist China, to becoming a more compliant partner with the US, which now saw Indonesia as a major stabilizing force in a volatile region.
What is new, and encouraging, about the events of the last month is that Russia has found enough common ground with the US – in their mutual anxiety about the rising influence of radical Islam in an increasingly fragmented and volatile region – to be prepared at last to do some squeezing.
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