On July 27, The Commercial & Financial Chronicle noted that "the market keeps unstable ... no sooner are these signs of new life in evidence than something like a suggestion of a new outflow of gold to Paris sends a tremble all through the list, and the gain in values and hope is gone".
Mr Putin has plenty of tools at his disposal to keep Ukraine unstable and off limits for the West.
"But if Russia follows its usual paranoia about America and its usual instinct to use the internal problems of Georgia to apply pressure," he said, "it could try to keep Georgia unstable".
Police stations have been a frequent target of attack by insurgents, as part of what American officials say is a campaign to keep Iraq unstable and to scare Iraqis from working in a new civil structure assembled by the United States.
In particular, rivalry between Somalia's many clans, which has been the country's bane since its inception half a century ago, will keep it unstable for a long time yet.
What the two forces keep in unstable balance is the family circle the terrible hold of the father who both sustained them and tormented them, who pushed them out to be discovered as well as to be wounded some more by other men.
Among Mr. Karzai's critical comments on Sunday, which came at an early-morning news conference in honor of women's day in Afghanistan, he charged that the American government and the Taliban, while using different means, had in effect colluded to keep Afghanistan unstable to justify a continued American military presence.
The effort follows Mr. Obama's call, in a column on Sunday in a Tucson newspaper, to put aside "stale policy debates" and begin "a new discussion" on ways to better enforce and strengthen existing laws to keep mentally unstable, violent and criminal people from getting guns.
But last weekend, Mr. Karzai showed a truly sinister side in accusing the United States of colluding with the Taliban on suicide attacks to keep Afghanistan unstable and to give forces an excuse to stay beyond the troop withdrawal deadline, at the end of 2014.
Moreover, denser cold water near the lake will be lifted by underlying hotter water, which needs to boil and bubble to keep the unstable cooler lake suspended.
