In January India's Supreme Court sided with Vodafone in a ruling that many hoped would bring stability to India's capricious treatment of foreign investors.
But it also hints at the capricious Mr Hussein's power to cripple the Kurdish economy overnight, should he decide to flood it by releasing billions of Swiss dinars.
BlackBerry is taking scorn for its capricious ad depicting several fantastic scenarios created by, or solved by (it's not always clear what the heck is going on during the montage), the upcoming Z10 smartphone.
Arbitrary, capricious government is a major reason that Argentina has a lagging, perennially troubled economy and that it's no longer one of the richest nations in the world, as it was 100 years ago.