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Tag Archives: volatility
A No-Cost Job Program for Obama
In a couple of recent blogs [Does Complexity Breed Volatility? and Perry, Obama, and Political Volatility], I postulated that citizens (and investors) tend to get overwhelmed by news of which they can no longer clearly evaluate the impacts, because the World … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Society
Tagged 9/11, bush, complexity, economy, job, job program, jobs, Nation, Obama, politics, U.S., volatility, work
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Perry, Obama, and Political Volatility
In my last post [Does Complexity Breed Volatility?], I briefly talked about how complexity makes it increasingly difficult for investors to evaluate the impacts of incoming news, especially “big” news, on their investments. The result is that everyone sells with everyone else, … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Society
Tagged anxiety, budget, CBO, complexity, economy, fear, investing, Jonathan Chait, medicaid, medicaire, Obama, political, politics, Rick Perry, Social Security, stock market, U.S. Congressional Budget Office, volatility
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Does Complexity Breed Volatility?
We have now become familiar with the VIX, the Chicago Board Options Exchange Market Volatility Index, thanks to the wild stock market volatility that has graced our television screens in the last few weeks. Investors process incoming political and economic … Continue reading
Posted in Decision Making, Government, Society
Tagged complexity, connectivity, economy, financial, Nicholas Colas, politics, risk off, risk on, Steve jobs, stock market, system, Telis Demos, trust, uncertainty, volatility
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Bernard Markowicz
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