Budget monitors argue that the state is relying more heavily than ever on one volatile industry, the investment business, to balance its books.

And they defended their investment record in what they called a volatile industry.

"Tourism is a very volatile industry, which reacts nervously to current events," said one hotel manager.

It is a truism that utilities are safer than more volatile industries.

He also said the city's economy had become increasingly dependent on the volatile financial industry.

He has exhibited longevity in a volatile industry and continues to set his sights on higher goals.

It was then that sensational journalism was Chicago's most volatile industry.

That's what often happens in industries as volatile as this one.

Another is to find investors ready to risk $2.5 billion in a volatile industry.

"But we make sure to remind people it is a volatile industry."