"The European system to which the government has tied Australia's electricity prices is now deeply unstable, " Mr Hunt said.

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Yes, there are a lot of controls, but these controls are only needed because our economic and monetary system itself is inherently unstable as evidenced by the existence of business cycles.

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The problem is that in a fractional reserve banking system banks are inherently unstable.

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