(f) Nineteen national General Service staff, including Guard Shift Supervisors and Air Security Assistants (new posts).

But leaving the system unchanged will maintain the global economy s vulnerability to future bouts of speculation that we cannot afford.

The Committee was informed that the change in shift schedules was introduced after a review of practices in this regard at other United Nations entities, including the Secretariat.

Its financial system was unstable and prone to panics, and its political system was immature and prone to populism and nativism.

Upon enquiry, the Committee was informed that this was predominantly the result of a change in shift schedules, i.e., 10 or 12 hour shifts instead of 8 hour shifts.

Of course, there is no theoretical limit on divergence. The problem is that exchange rate shifts now represent the only mechanism for reconciliation, and the divide between certain market valuations and their fundamentals has become so large that prices are vulnerable to bouts of volatility.

But this hesitant acceptance of a certain normality in its relations with its neighbors has always been vulnerable to a sudden eruption of Russia s famously irrational derzhava an aggressive ethos that glorifies the state and asserts its strength by pouncing on weakness.

And the market is prone to temporary fits of shared enthusiasm for emerging market debt, for Internet stocks, for residential mortgage backed securities, for Greek government debt. Traders need not wait to see when or whether the profits materialize.