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Popple tries to detect how candidates will handle market volatility, asking how long they tend to dwell on big losses.

How the Jaguars can win: Jacksonville can look like a playoff team when it wins at the line of scrimmage but tends to collapse when it gets pushed around.

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"We tend to remember only the successes, but most new parties fail," he adds.

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That is, an initial spurt tends to be followed by a more moderate pace before widespread adoption.

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Tech layoffs also tend to move up during periods of market stress, but interest us for a different reason.

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