For those investors will allocations to precious metals, this type of short term price behavior can serve as a reminder of the type of volatility that commodities can experience.

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And we as traders only care about one thing: short-term market behavior.

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Both Singh and Jablow noticed that conversations inside and outside the classroom were increasingly veering toward questions of ethical mismanagement, risky and unsustainable behavior and short-term decision making, often leading to lengthy debates on responsible business practices.

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The key conclusion of this theory is that transitory, short-term changes in income have little effect on consumer spending behavior.

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How we arrived here has less to do with sex or any other behavior and more to do with the handicap of short-term thinking endemic to the human mind.

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