I duly do my job, offering macroeconomic projections with a sprinkling of social unrest, political volatility, international interconnectedness and market pressure.
Films That Echo France's Political, Social and Sexual Volatility Rendezvous With French Cinema 2001, a weeklong series of screenings, runs through March 19 at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center.
Solnit posits that damage to the orbitofrontal cortex — such as Muybridge may have sustained in a stagecoach accident in 1860 — can produce the kind of volatility, social ineptitude and even odd brilliance that characterized this murdering, unkempt artist-inventor whose extraordinary legacy is still apparent today.
Echoes of the political, social and sexual volatility that infuse "La Ville Est Tranquille" ripple throughout this year's Rendezvous series, which sketches a country where the traditionally left-wing working class, fearful over a scarcity of jobs and the influx of immigrants, has veered sharply to the right.
Although the original purpose of a financial transaction tax was to slow down speculation and volatility, social activists favor this tax as a way to secure more fair and equitable tax collection.
The Giving Pledge may or may not contain, but is consistent with, an implicit recognition that facing the global predicaments of climate change, financial volatility, social inequality and political inertia, neither economic growth based on consumerism nor philanthropy as usual will be sufficient.
We have to find a way to prevent or limit major banks from repeatedly going short on volatility at social expense.
More recently, as the Arab Spring uprisings spread through the Middle East and crept into the Gulf, beginning with Bahrain, new questions have surfaced about the volatility of social divisions and the uprising's impact on economies that largely depend on sizable expatriate populations.
But many of us, left and right, would like markets to be as efficient as possible so that the people may enjoy the many blessings of innovation and abundance, including a government with abundant means at its disposal to provide its people the best possible public goods and volatility-smoothing social insurance.
Another reason for the seeming voter volatility is the social unacceptability of appearing uninformed.
