Energy FUBAR as AEMO robs Aussies to pay war-profiteers

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This is what a failed market and failed regulator looks like:

The Australian Energy Regulator has used its legislative powers to effectively confiscate gas that had been allocated to supply low fixed priced contracts with a large number of prudent enterprises led by the food processing industry.

These companies – without the protection of the low fixed gas prices they had negotiated – are now facing huge losses.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.