Category Archives: Doomsday scenarios

Brexit: UK Capitulates

The latest installment in the Brexit soap opera.

Biodiversity Plummets, Posing Grave Global Threat

Three years in the making, comprehensive UN report on declining biodiversity identifies this trend as a major threat to continued survival.

Who Will Stop the US-Russia Arms Race?

Real News Network interview with Professor Stephen F. Cohen on the insane arms race between the United States and Russia, which leaders from both parties are doing their utmost to stoke.

The Euro Area’s Deepening Political Divide

The Euro is creating new fault lines. Eurozone leaders need to give greater priority to national interests, particularly of economic “losers”.

How Well Does Financial Regulation Work?

Sadly, reactive regulations don’t have a great track record.

Waiting for the Chinese Bear Stearns

Why the Chinese shadow banking system is a possible source of systemic risk: a outstanding worry that has not gotten any better.

Brexit: EU Tightens the Noose

Has the fatal Brexit standoff arrived, or will someone blink?

Putin, Trump, and the Nuclear Danger

Some critical background on why Putin decided to invest heavily in technologies that could counter or circumvent US threats.

Monetary Policy and Fiscal Discipline: How the ECB Planted the Seeds of the Euro Area Crisis

How the ECB did Euro-area member states a dirty when it tried to act as deficit enforcer.

Crash Out Brexit Now the Defender Position

Brace yourselves! Why a “crash out” Brexit is now the most likely outcome.

Brexit-Induced Pillaging of the UK Starts: US Fleecing UK on Must-Have Air Transport Pact

Yet another Brexit shoe is about to drop….this one on the aviation front.

Tories, Trapped by Their Red Lines, Again Blame EU as Clock Runs Down

Assume the brace position. A hard Brexit is looking more likely.

All Guns, No Butter: Military Contractors as Welfare Queens

The Trump budget is particularly shameless in providing more pork to the military despite the absence of any genuine pressing need.

Corbyn’s Brexit Challenge: From the Frying Pan into the Fire?

Unfortunately, Corbyn finally stepping into the Brexit fray looks like different cherry picking and potentially even more political upheaval.

Melting Ice Could Release Hazardous Waste from Abandoned Cold War Site

Melting Greenland ice will release chemical and some radioactive nasties from an old US Cold War base. Expect more of this sort of thing.