Those Fickle Sovereign Wealth Funds

Why is he so fickle?!

Oh, how fickle is woman!

Your admirers are very fickle.

If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him That is renown'd for faith? Be fickle, fortune

Reputations are volatile. Loyalties are fickle.

Fickle, adoring... false and true together.

My poor fickle friends, you'll never understand.

But financial markets are a harsh and fickle taskmaster.

JULlET O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle

Fausto's a good boy. He's just a little fickle.

Love for a woman is fickle as the moon.

And fickle like a woman, and cruel like a woman.

All men are lying, fickle, false, garrulous, hypocritical and arrogant.

The future is inherently uncertain, and therefore investor psychology is fickle.

you will be held with us as hostages for Athens' fickle favours.

Broken right down the middle by a fickle dame in a lace cap.

Moreover, opinion polls in France are fickle omens. Since 1981, no poll favorite has won the presidency.

Like an archer, an arrow, the wise man steadies his trembling mind, a fickle and restless weapon .

Ukrainian voters are fickle. They voted against the incumbent powers in the presidential elections of 1994, 2004, and 2010.

Thaksin s dominance of Thai politics is unprecedented, and his resilient popularity in the face of a fickle electorate is unparalleled.

Producers in Jiangsu, for example, were forced to adapt constantly to fickle product safety and environmental standards in export markets.

The real reason to worry is that India has lost international competitiveness and has been buying time by borrowing from fickle lenders.

Of course, the people are never truly one fickle in their loyalties and subject to demagoguery, they often unite in opposition but fracture once in command.

Conglomerates allow financial institutions to diversify their business, and combining with commercial banks allows investment banks to fund their operations using relatively stable deposits instead of fickle money markets.

DUBLIN Bond markets are notoriously fickle, often driven by sentiment rather than rigorous macroeconomic analysis, and, as the 2008 global financial crisis demonstrated, they are far from infallible. They can also be particularly unreliable when assessing an economy s long term prospects.

While Karzai has been fickle, to say the least, about cooperation with the Americans (indeed, he has since backed away from participation in the Doha talks), the rupture of his political alliance with non Pashtun leaders has also fueled ethnic polarization.

First, confidence and risk aversion are fickle, and bouts of renewed volatility may occur if macroeconomic and financial data were to surprise on the downside as they may if a near term and robust global recovery (which many people expect) does not materialize.

I think there are only two exceptions that I'm aware of two year olds, they are not rational, they have very fickle preferences, they switch what they think all the time, and schizophrenics are probably not rational, but pretty much everybody else is rational.

Yet the strong link between the fate of the coalition (and that of the Fourth Republic) and a fickle electorate addicted to social benefits will block the serious reforms that are needed to put the economy on a sound footing in the long term.

I think there are only two exceptions that I'm aware of two year olds, they are not rational, they have very fickle preferences, they switch what they think all the time, and schizophrenics are probably not rational, but pretty much everybody else is rational.

It is not that we should feel nothing but we should be encouraged to think more and to prevent the wound rather than pay for the Band Aid. In a media culture that can deliver instant stardom and fickle trends, our attention shifts too rapidly to see the forest for the trees.