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True, India may not be the best advertisement for democracy in some respects, given how hard it often seems there to make long-term decisions and implement them without being buffeted – and frequently derailed – by volatile public opinion and hard-nosed vested interests.
Both are volatile democracies where any political question can provoke not just intense debate, but also the threat of violence.
But the situation remains highly volatile.
GDP growth has slowed sharply; corporate-debt ratios are unprecedentedly high; the currency is sliding; equity markets are exceptionally volatile; and capital is flowing out of the country at an alarming pace.
America’s financial sector targeted African-Americans for exploitation, especially in the years before the financial crisis, selling them volatile products with high fees that could, and did, explode.
Unemployment is at a cyclical low, and the economy appears to be less volatile than at any point in modern history.
But, given such investors' long-term liabilities (claims and benefits), their mandate is to invest mostly in bonds, which are less risky than stocks or other volatile assets.
Moreover, in a “risk-off" environment, when investors are risk-averse or when equities and other risky assets are subject to market and/or credit uncertainty, it may be better to hold negative-yielding bonds than riskier and more volatile assets.
But gold is also a high-risk and highly volatile investment.
The US election is now a volatile affair.
Relations between Europe and Russia have been deteriorating for several years, but once manageable economic issues, including energy, are now being aggravated by much more volatile political differences.
There, and in the volatile Caucasus, a significant improvement in Europe’s relations with Russia is crucial to defusing tensions.
That country’s volatile regime, led by the world’s most powerful juvenile delinquent, Kim Jong-un, not only possesses nuclear weapons, but is also working to develop long-range delivery capacity.
Today, the debate is over “core inflation,” which excludes food and energy prices because they are too volatile.
The disconnect between America’s terms of trade and the far more volatile REER is also consistent with low and delayed exchange-rate pass-through.
Indeed, the IMF/World Bank meetings also grappled with a second fundamental change in the world economy: high and volatile primary commodity prices are now a major threat to global economic stability and growth.
Core inflation (the consumer price index after excluding volatile food and energy prices) in the eurozone fell to an annual rate of 0.8% in October – a 47-month low – while producer prices fell by 0.5%, suggesting that deflation is already in Europe’s economic pipeline.
Latin America, the region that tried hardest to implement the "Washington Consensus" recipes--free trade, price deregulation, and privatization--has experienced low and volatile growth, with widening inequalities.
Part of this angry-voter phenomenon can be attributed to local or temporary factors: Politics is always and everywhere a volatile business at times.
They make it harder for developing countries to access technology, manage volatile capital flows, and diversify their economies through industrial policies.
Your crops are withering as weather patterns become more volatile, your well water is too salty to drink, and rice is too expensive to buy at the market.
The situation is so volatile that we may not know everything the bill contains – and which special interests won out – until after it is passed.
As if that were not enough, farmers are facing increasingly volatile climate conditions that increase the likelihood that their crops will fail.
Another popular response to the recent correction has been to complain that the market has been made more volatile, because trading is increasingly carried out by machines, rather than humans.
And it will also depend on whether countries with volatile incomes, especially those reliant on natural resources, put money aside when earnings are high.
Beyond this, international forces must secure and eliminate all weapons of mass destruction; prevent ethnic and religious tensions from erupting into violence; ensure that none of Iraq's neighbors exacerbates an already volatile situation.
Employee ownership has long been successful even in industries -- such as plywood manufacturing and investment banking -- that are both volatile and relatively capital intensive.
But today the international community has a tremendous window of opportunity to secure a small but significant peace in the Middle East along the volatile border of Lebanon and Israel.
That’s because at some point, the volatile price of the tradable resource will exceed the fixed cost of destroying it.
More worryingly, advanced countries’ growth rates have also become more volatile.
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