LNG, which is much more tradeable and mobile than pipeline-delivered gas, is set dramatically to change the equilibrium of the gas market.

ECONOMIST: Russian gas and Europe

In the long term, fixed currency rates were a recipe for trouble because when economic times changed currencies, conversion rates needed to change as well to keep the economy in equilibrium.

FORBES: We're All Currency Manipulators These Days

Rather than achieve a higher equilibrium for AdWords a lower one was created, forcing the reversal of the Panda change and thus allowing the organic love to flow once more.

FORBES: Why Google's Results Missed

I'm even cautiously optimistic that the current impasse over gun regulation is a bad-equilibrium that few consumers actually want, and that a reconstructed Freedom Group, fighting for sensible change as a fifth column from within the industry, might well find that many people -- even a significant portion of the NRA's members -- would buy from a truly responsible (and high quality) gunmaker if given the chance.

CNN: Freedom Group, a gunmaker ripe for an ethical takeover