Sentences with phrase «own fragility»

The outcome of the Brexit referendum clearly demonstrated the inherent volatility and fragility of global markets.

Maybe it's a sign of the times that we feel compelled to equate structural interdependencies and cascading impacts in the business world to biological systems and their fragility.

In this second edition, Taleb has added a new essay, On Robustness and Fragility, which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world.»

I've had a lot of time since then to grieve and reflect on the beauty as well as the fragility of life.

But don't mistake Frayne's build or cheery demeanor for fragility; he's stoic when talking about his life and hardships.

Farrow also claims that the only reason why the molestation case against Allen didn't go to court, though the prosecutor had «probable cause» to prosecute Allen, was due to «the fragility of the child victim.»

«In the presence of uncertainty and the absence of accelerating inflationary pressures, it would be unwise for policy to foreclose on the possibility of making further gains in the labor market,» she said, adding that «disinflation pressure and weak demand from abroad will likely weigh on the U.S. outlook for some time, and fragility in global markets could again pose risks here at home.»

The economic fragility demonstrated by the 2008 crash provided a good argument for a more generous safety net.

Annamaria Lusardi calls this phenomenon «financial fragility.»

The Bank highlights three vulnerabilities in the financial system: the elevated level of household indebtedness, imbalances in some regional housing markets and the fragility of liquidity in fixed - income markets.

Fragility: If it's easy for your products to break during delivery, you'll have lots of turnovers and this will result in a bad reputation for your company.

«That's a key change from the past seven years, when weakness in at least one major region offset strength elsewhere and created fragility that made the global economy more sensitive to shifts in growth at the margins.»

Thus, emerging economies with large twin deficits and other macroeconomic fragilities may experience further downward pressure on their financial markets and growth rates.

The fragility of Italy's application — high levels of debt, runaway deficits — was underscored the next year when Italy was expelled from the exchange rate mechanism and came close to running out of money.

This is a time of considerable financial and geopolitical fragility around the world.

«I'm similarly impressed by the fragility of our economic system, even though it's been reinforced with so many heavy measures by governments around the globe, ECB bond - buying programs and zero interest rate policies here in the U.S., for instance.»

A focus on current accounts in the analysis of cross-border capital flows diverts attention away from the global financing patterns that are at the core of financial fragility.

Recent data show that he may in fact be right about global economic growth and domestic economic fragility.

This suggests that more than a quantum of fragility underlies the current elevated mood in financial markets.

«We believe that especially in times of economic fragility a lot of the innovation... comes from those same small business entrepreneurs, because they have the ideas of what that new value - added economy can look like,» he said.

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description Harold James examines the vulnerability and fragility of processes of globalization, both historically and in the present.

The recent blog post titled «Fingers of Instability» highlighted the more recent changes in market structure that has created fragility in the system.

In my opinion, there is no better inventory for a company to own, given the grave fragility of the global banking and finance system, than the only real, sound money in the entire world, proven and probable reserves of physical gold and physical silver.

While to some extent this is a normalisation after a period of unusually subdued volatility, these movements may also be signalling that a degree of underlying fragility has built up over the long period of «search for yield».

In «China's Great Wall of Debt», Dinny McMahon exposes the fragility and contradictions of the country's growth model.

Nothing has demonstrated the fragility of jobs more than what we have been through in the past five years.

Moreover, it is now doubtful whether the efficient market hypothesis makes any kind of sense. Indeed, a great many economists and bankers have discovered Minskyâ $ ™ s views on financial fragility and his financial instability hypothesis, according to which banks and financial markets can not be left to themselves: we need regulations even though regulating markets may not succeed in avoiding another crisis once the memory of the current crisis has faded away.As told to me by a law student recently hired by Blackrock, the largest asset manager in the world, with assets totalling more than 3,500 billion dollars â $ «thatâ $ ™ s one and a half times larger than UBS and twice as large as PIMCO â $ «many asset managers are now turning away from hiring neoclassical economists and actually prefer hiring engineers, sociologists and even philosophers.

Mr. Faruqee and Mr. Pescatori were the latest to observe that Canada could struggle to spot fragilities in the financial system, and respond in a timely manner.

At this moment of fragility, raising rates risks tipping some part of the financial system into crisis, with unpredictable and dangerous results.

I am not surprised at the fragility of the networks, and I wonder how it will go when institutional money is really flooding in.

In effect, the entire market converges to what professional option traders call a «naked short straddle»... a structure dangerously exposed to fragility.»

Merkel's fragility was center stage on Friday at the White House.

Correlation risk: «The concept of diversification is the foundation of modern portfolio theory... The financial engineer... reduces the risk of a portfolio by combining anti-correlated assets... All modern portfolio theory does is transfer price risk into hidden short correlation risk... Many popular institutional investment strategies derive excess returns via implicit leveraged short correlation trades with hidden fragility... Correlation risk can be isolated and actively traded via options as source of excess returns.

Britain's decision to leave exposes the fragility of trade right now and mounting apprehension toward globalization.

Given the economy's fragility, we should not slam on the fiscal brakes, but even the short - term goal should be a downward trajectory for debt - to - GDP — not a high plateau.

Revisiting late medieval biblical interpretation, we may consider the delicacy of the hermeneutic circle formed by Scripture and tradition, appreciating the fragility of a synthesis that refuses to impose on ancient consensus a linear, hierarchical path to truth.

Washington archdiocese spokeswoman Susan Gibbs told CNN afterwards that the reference to «innocent human life» was meant «broadly,» referring to «all life that is at risk, not just simply the unborn, but the fragility of all human life.»

It was historians with a feeble grasp of the fragility of political democracy that most concerned her, not global issues or diplomatic maneuvering.

Contrary to the popular portrayal of torture as «medieval,» it was the early - modern monarchies that inaugurated «the golden age of judicial torture,» along with offering spectacular public executions that reflected the fragility of the new state's monopoly on violence.

By the time we begin part III in Martha Nussbaum's brilliant The Fragility of Goodness (1986), it is clear to us that she — and we, if we have found parts I and II compelling — is searching for something.

Alternative: We need to take care to name both the tragedy and the resilience in any situation — the fragility of a local person, as well as their assets and skills.

The Fragility of Freedom: Tocqueville on Religion, Democracy, and the American Future By Joshua Mitchell University of Chicago Press.

They recognized Emmanuel, God with us, in the pregnancy of a Palestinian teenager, among a persecuted minority suffering under an oppressive empire, amidst the darkness of a call for infanticide, in the company of shepherds and strangers, and in the vulnerable fragility of a baby's cries.

The fragility of medieval society required the elimination of heretics.

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

We are aware of our fragility and know what we can negotiate at the moment and what we can not.

When we pledge our faithfulness to another on our wedding day, we're mocking the changeableness of life, saying that we trust in the covenant of marriage to transcend the weakness of our flesh, the fickleness of our passions, and the fragility of our egos.

The fragility of this — due, among other things, to exchange rate instability, market volatility, the development of derivatives, and to the structural deficiencies of the institutions (IMF and the World Bank) upon which the financial system rests — is now admitted by all.

As we near the close of the twentieth century we have become increasingly conscious of the fragility of our world.

The recording of an external likeness was denounced by the third - century neo-Platonist philosopher Plotinus, who refused to allow his portrait to be painted, in part because he believed it only an «image of an image» (in true Platonist fashion), and in part because he rejected his material existence, claiming that its mortal fragility demonstrated that it was essentially untrue and unreal.