the 1860s to today's fraught and fractious Middle East, Crude Volatility explains how past periods of stability and … volatility in oil prices help us understand the new boom-bust era. Oil's notorious volatility has always been considered a … harmful price volatility prompted industry leaders and officials to undertake extraordinary efforts to stabilize oil prices by …

which were caught in the subprime mortgage and capital markets crisis of 2007. While extreme volatility is nothing new in …, corporate executives, risk managers, regulators, policymakers, journalists, and anyone who faces a world of extreme volatility. …