Since Congress's approval rating is now extremely low, 2012 could be another high-volatility cycle.
For those who strongly ascribe to passive management, TDFs can be the quintessential passive investment as they rarely engage in active management staples such as volatility, market cycles and the unique needs of individual investors.
In "Institutions, Informal Labor Markets, and Business Cycle Volatility," Alan Finkelstein Shapiro studies the relationship between different institutions that affect informality and long-run macroeconomic outcomes, as well as labor market volatility.
The central bank, by controlling inflation, can dramatically reduce the volatility of business cycles.
Know that volatility and down cycles in the market aren't just common, they're necessary.
For example, before the 1990s, the cycles show higher amplitude and the periods of high volatility in either the cycle or the trend are more frequent.
"From the Peaks to the Valleys: Cross-State Evidence on Income Volatility Over the Business Cycle". Review of Economics and Statistics.
It produces excess volatility over the business cycle, resulting in measurable economic costs — both to people and to the companies they work for.
Now insurgents like Mr. Miller and Ms. O'Donnell are featured by the Senate campaign committee, in a telling example of the volatility of the election cycle.
But setting the precedent of a modern-day emperor ensnares Chinese politics in a cycle of volatility and unsustainability that renders an entire nation vulnerable, once again, to the whimsy of an individual.
Setting the precedent of a modern-day emperor ensnares Chinese politics in a cycle of volatility that renders the nation vulnerable, once again, to the whimsy of an individual.
