Since the fall of Saddam, the Americans have repeated the mantra that Iran and Syria share America's interest in bringing stability to Iraq because the current instability destabilizes them.

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The prime minister said all Europe's economies, whether in the euro or not, needed a swift resolution of the current instability, and the single currency area as a whole needed to act to demonstrate it could "live within its means".

BBC: UK Politics

"The simple fact is that the chancellor has made it clear that all existing deposits in Northern Rock are fully backed by the Bank of England and are totally secure during the current instability in the financial markets, " he said.

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India's current political instability comes after a difficult few months for Mr. Singh's Congress.

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Pakistan and Bangladesh had already carried a series of currency devaluations over the last eighteen months, before the current bout of economic instability in the Far East.

BBC: South Asia: Rupee down

As a consequence, their proposed solutions do not address the underlying instability of the current system of floating paper currencies that bob about on foreign exchange markets whipped this way and that by forces that have little, if any correlation to the so-called underlying fundamentals.

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The current conventional wisdom that central banks will reduce economic and financial instability by keeping inflation low and stable is flawed.

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