5 Metaphors for fluctuation

Decade after decade the circulating medium of leading countries changes very slightly in amount, and the fluctuations in its amounts during periods of so-called "favorable balance of trade" and of "unfavorable balance of trade" are only the smallest fraction of the value of goods passing through the ports of the country.

In a number of silver-using countries and colonial dependencies near the end of the nineteenth century, the fluctuations of the value of silver in terms of gold was a constant source of difficulty in the payment of foreign obligations to gold standard countries.

To a large degree these various fluctuations are mutually compensatory, workers going and coming, orders increasing here and decreasing there.

Instead, it was kept violently fluctuatingor at least its fluctuations were aggravatedby the impositions of those in charge of me, induced sometimes, I freely admit, by deliberate and purposeful transgressions of my own.

The fluctuations in employment due to changes of season, as in the building trades, and many branches of dock labour, or to changes of fashion, as in the silk and "fancy" woollen trade, or to temporary changes in the field of employment caused by a transformation of industrial processes, are direct causes of a considerable quantity of temporary unemployment.

5 Metaphors for  fluctuation