One way of dampening that source of instability in the financial system is to increase the number of women and older men in the markets because they have very different physiology then young males.

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To promote safe lending in the long term, some risk must be left with depositors, and far more (it is to be hoped) with owners, but not so much as to make the system vulnerable to short-term instability.

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As a consequence, their proposed solutions do not address the underlying instability of the current system of floating paper currencies that bob about on foreign exchange markets whipped this way and that by forces that have little, if any correlation to the so-called underlying fundamentals.

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One popular idea for minimising such instability is a more formal system of currency co-operation between the world's major economies.

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But despite the debt crisis, economic contraction in many European Union countries and instability in the European banking system, experts at Jones Lang LaSalle say confidence in the hotel real-estate sector has risen since October 2011.

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Their argument and, until recently, the conventional wisdom was that a restructuring would lead to significant losses for international banks - particularly in Germany and France - and that instability would flow through the entire European banking system.

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Throughout the world, one of the most prevalent causes of war, terrorism, and political instability is the ongoing weakening of the nation-state system.

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Closely related to this third group of activities is a critical question that we as a country now face: how to strengthen our financial system, including our system of financial regulation and supervision, to reduce the frequency and severity of bouts of financial instability in the future.

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