Productivity is volatile, making underlying trends hard to discern.
Roosevelt's supple handling of his volatile — make that combustible — ambassador and potential rival for the presidency in 1940 and 1944 constitutes political spectator sport of the highest order.
But with the growing political uncertainty and the ambiguous role of the European Central Bank, combined with trading that is both thin and volatile, making serious money has never been harder, traders say.
The prices of illiquid securities tend to be volatile, making it more likely that at the moment a fund buys or sells, there will be a significant difference between the trade price and the prices more typically seen for the security.
But it may also be a sign that tax revenues have become more volatile, making it much harder for governments to judge the health of their finances.Instead of storing up surpluses in the fat years so as to cushion their finances in the lean ones, governments were sorely tempted to spend their inflated revenues, in the hope of buying some electoral popularity.
The resulting routes can be extremely volatile, making successful ad hoc routing dependent on efficiently reacting to these topology changes.
Global stock markets have also been very volatile, making Virgin Money think investors may not have much appetite for buying its shares in the current climate.
It appealed to her because "unlike higher programming languages that are created by people and are volatile," making and breaking computer security systems requires a deeper knowledge of mathematics and the primitive "assembly language" that computers use to move information.
In this paper, I show that by allowing payments to adjust to inflation, particularly that of wages, by incorporating a prespecified growth rate into mortgage payments, mortgage loans become more affordable while bank interest spreads become less volatile, making the banking system less unstable.
At the same time, as we have seen, capital flows can be volatile, making economic management more difficult.
