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volatility

The stock market swoon and our hatred of (some kinds of) volatility

February 11, 2018 by Kurt Cobb

Whenever we seek to reduce volatility in our lives, we should ask whether the result will be volatility transferred elsewhere. And, we should ask whether we are merely postponing volatility that will occur later and more violently in ways that could disable us.

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