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With mounting concerns about climate change and volatility in oil and other fossil-fuel prices, renewables are finally becoming a viable proposition.
That, coupled with the 3% depreciation in the past few months, should send a strong signal to speculators that one-way renminbi bets are hazardous – a signal that could help dampen inflows of hot money, which have complicated liquidity management and fueled asset-market volatility in China.
In a country with one of the worst histories of economic crisis and volatility, fears of a new meltdown are growing, and investors have been dollarizing their portfolios in order to protect their capital.
Argentina requires a comprehensive program to demonstrate that, in addition to the ability to generate wealth that it has shown over the past eight years, it can sustain economic growth and not revert to the volatility of the past.
What Should China Do?STANFORD – The Chinese government’s heavy-handed efforts to contain recent stock-market volatility – the latest move prohibits short selling and sales by major shareholders – have seriously damaged its credibility.
The historic volatility of oil prices reflects these psychological shifts as well as changes in objective reality.
Ironically, California’s progressive tax and spending policies create such volatility that they destroy the state’s ability to fund everything, even basic services from education to health for its most vulnerable citizens.
This, by the way, may not be mere copycat, but an attempt by Europe’s central bankers, wary of exchange rate volatility, to loosely co-ordinate interest rates to promote stable exchange rates.
A decade later, US-liberated Iraq remains stuck in a low-intensity civil war, just as French-protected Mali is consumed by volatility and NATO-rescued Libya remains mired in chaos.
The floating exchange-rate system works surprisingly well, but currency volatility and unpredictability look likely to remain an enduring constant in 2011 and beyond.
Indeed, one of the big puzzles of the US stock market recently has been low price volatility since around 2004, amid the most volatile earnings growth ever seen.
One would think that market prices should be volatile as investors try to absorb what this earnings volatility means.
No one is looking for a sudden surge, and volatility is reduced by the absence of sharp up-movements.
But going to war to impede Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and containing the subsequent chaos – including oil-price spikes, increased regional volatility, and reduced American strategic flexibility – would be far more costly.
The post-crisis harmonization fervor in this area means that it will now be more costly everywhere in the EU to insure against currency volatility or unexpected changes in interest.
Unlike prices for coal, which is abundant and dispersed geographically, gas prices are subject to significant volatility, and the long-term trend in the face of fossil fuel depletion is uncertain.
Recent US monetary-policy measures and statements have reflected the belief that America’s stake in EMDCs’ financial stability is limited to the extent to which volatility poses a risk to the near-term US economic outlook.
First, the recent extraordinary period of repressed volatility in financial markets, ultra-low interest rates, and dollar weakness unleashed another surge of capital flows to emerging countries, including “tourist dollars,” which tend to flow right back out at the first sign of trouble.
In both periods, fiscal laxity stoked volatility in the foreign exchange markets, where the surge in inflation in the 1960s destroyed the fixed exchange rate system of Bretton Woods.
For example, policymakers must defuse the competitive pressures between food and fuel by designing schemes to counter price volatility for basic foodstuffs.
The combination of strong growth, low inflation, and easy money implied that market volatility was low.
Likewise, slower growth, higher inflation, and less monetary-policy accommodation will temper investor sentiment as financial conditions tighten and volatility increases.
With the era of low volatility now behind us, it would seem that the current risk-off era is here to stay.
Financial-market indices in the US, moreover, are near pre-crisis levels, and expected volatility is at multi-year lows.
The more energy-efficient one is, the lower one’s vulnerability to price volatility.
And it was viewed as benign by central banks convinced that the attainment of price stability was sufficient to ensure a lasting “ Great Moderation” of economic volatility .
In fact, whereas most schools of economic thought maintain that one of government’s key responsibilities is to smooth the cycle, “real” business-cycle theory argues that reducing volatility reduces welfare!
Ultimately, it would most likely boost the overall efficiency of the oil market and strengthen producers’ capacity to weather market volatility.
In a turbulent world of market volatility, however, they risk being overwhelmed.
The question now is what can be done to prevent further volatility.
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