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Instead of becoming more modern, agriculture remained as dependent as ever on erratic monsoon rains and became even more volatile in its production.
This has been aggravated by a more volatile environment for financial flows to emerging countries, more tentative foreign direct investment, and concern about the potential fallout for international trade from rising anti-globalization rhetoric in the unusual presidential race in the United States.
Since then, the international financial system has been highly volatile.
The problem here is that these measures implicitly assume that risk declines when markets are doing well: they demand less capital during calm periods and more capital during volatile periods.
This is helping to promote further instability in already volatile political contexts.
For starters, oil and gas prices are volatile, and fossil fuels in general have an uncertain future.
Oil prices are especially volatile, as the large swings over the last five years remind us.
Because Americans misunderstood the motives behind the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States fought two costly wars, which did not defeat its enemies and have left the Middle East more volatile than ever.
Emerging economies inhabit a risky world characterized by volatile capital flows.
After all, advanced economies’ policies were driving large and volatile capital flows into the major emerging markets, pushing up their exchange rates and damaging their export competitiveness – a phenomenon that Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff later referred to as a “capital tsunami.”
As long as banks – and thus governments, which sell their debt to the banks – can draw cheap credit up to any amount from the European System of Central Banks, Europe will remain volatile.
Here incomes are often considerably more volatile than in richer countries, owing to heavy reliance on a few commodities or industries and hence higher vulnerability to external shocks, including weather-related and other natural disasters.
Once the private sector comes to view the e-SDR as a less volatile unit of account than individual component currencies, asset managers, traders, and investors could begin to price their goods and services, and value their assets and liabilities, accordingly.
One year after the “little green men” – Russian soldiers without military insignias – began to appear, first in Crimea and then in the Donbas region, the situation in eastern Ukraine remains both stalemated and volatile.
Against this volatile backdrop, the new Trump administration could very well embrace vastly different policies from what we have seen so far.
Contrary to the advice of many Chinese economists, the country’s policymakers have opted not to follow the conventional Western approach of using flexible exchange rates as the main shock absorber for volatile capital flows and thereby freeing monetary policy to provide liquidity for domestic structural adjustments.
But it is also contemplating other macro-prudential instruments, such as a kind of Tobin tax, the levy on financial transactions first suggested in 1972 by the Nobel laureate economist James Tobin, in order to discourage volatile capital flows.
In today’s world, nobody is safe from large and volatile capital flows – not even countries that have built up huge amounts of self-insurance in the form of foreign-exchange reserves.
A more aggressive approach would compensate bankers with the same bonds that guarantee their institutions’ short-term, volatile, and risky debts.
According to the latest inflation data, annual consumer price inflation is just 0.9% (and 1% if volatile energy and food prices are excluded).
The shift toward finance that Thatcher promoted heightened inequality and made the economy more volatile.
It is now in the process of being better funded, but we are eight months into a crisis in which international capital flows became volatile and were driven largely by emergency responses rather than underlying economic fundamentals.
People are also aware that the stock market has not been this volatile since the Great Depression (with the single exception of October 1987).
Indeed, they compound other threats: food insecurity, volatile energy and commodity markets, and the terrible persistence of poverty.
Mitigation of carbon emissions to reduce global warmingThe Return of the Madman TheoryMOSCOW – In the 1970s, US President Richard Nixon instructed Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to convince the leaders of hostile communist countries that he could be erratic and volatile, particularly when under pressure.
Some argue that the more constraining political systems work well in stable times, but perform poorly under volatile conditions like those prevailing today.
But that is not the right place to look nowadays, because regulators are positioning long-term debt to take the hit in a meltdown, while making banks’ extremely profitable – and far more volatile – short-term debt and trading operations more certain to be paid in full.
As emerging-market central banks leaned against heavy capital inflows in order to mitigate exchange-rate appreciation, their currencies became less volatile.
Decentralized organization, multiple leaderships, and conflicting ideological stances make the Salafi trend amorphous, volatile, and susceptible to manipulation and infiltration.
The political views of the parties of organized protest against the existing regime or their adaptation to it will always be extremely volatile and be determined by short-term trends, which will always be their determinant.
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