Category Archives: Doomsday scenarios

Brexit: According to Script

The commentariat’s Brexit predictions are playing out, sadly.

How Richard Vague Discovered Gravity: An Interview + Book Review of A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises

Richard Vague extends his work on the dangers of private debt via his new book, A Brief History of Doom, on the role of debt in financial crises.

How New York City Has Worked to Protect People from the Deadliest Disaster: Heat

New York City has set out to protect people — and the planet — from heat.

Brexit Breakup

More consternation about Johnson’s possible Brexit moves.

Example of ‘Unknown Unknowns,’ Study Detailing ‘Almost Instant Mortality of Corals’ Suggests Crisis Worse Than Previously Understood

New study published by Current Biology reveals that warming waters are an even bigger threat to coral reefs than experts previously realized.

Austerity Has Made People Less Prepared for a No Deal Brexit

The government says it’s preparing for a Brexit crash out. But ten years of spending cuts have made the people of Britain intensely vulnerable to economic shock.

New IPCC Report Warns of Vicious Cycle Between Soil Degradation and Climate Change

This Real News Network interview with Diana Ruiz of Greenpeace covers yet another dangerous effect of global warming: soil degradation and its knock-on effects.

5 Reasons Why Trump’s Venezuela Embargo Won’t End the Maduro Regime

Why the sanctions on Venezuela aren’t all they are cracked up to be.

Australia Debates: Communist Party China the New Nazi Germany?

A row Down Under as a prominent and well placed MP says some not-nice things about China.

Britain After Brexit: Welcome to the Vulture Restaurant

US business will asset-strip the UK, but that’s not all: the Pentagon will find the little-known fragments of the British empire very useful.

What Plunging Global Semiconductor Sales Says About Autos, IT & How the Economy Reacts to Uncertainties

Should you worry about the biggest fall in semiconductor sales since the Financial Crisis?

Mr. Market Swoons as Trump Administration Escalates Trade War with China With “Currency Manipulator” Charge

Markets are in a tizzy over the US-China trade row. But what might come next?

Mark Blyth’s Incisive Post-Crisis Takedown: “A Brief History of How We Got Here and Why”

Mark Blyth gives a pithy talk on the economic regimes of the modern period and what is likely to be in store.

The Trump White House Is Upending Decades of Policy-Making Procedures

The Trump Administration really is making things up as it goes along.

Signs of Recession Are Hitting Europe—And Its New Central Bank President May Not Be Up for the Challenge

Europe, or more specifically the Eurozone, has a deficient bank regulatory framework which may be tested by economic weakness and wobbly banks. Having Christine Lagarde at the ECB’s helm is not likely to be a plus.