Category Archives: Doomsday scenarios

Bill Black: Once a Poster Child for Austerity, Latvia Becomes a Hotbed of Corruption

Bill Black discusses how in two years Latvia has morphed from poster child for austerity for the financial press to a nest of banking corruption.

Tories Double Down on Brexit Fantasies as EU Again Says “Nein”

Yet another Groundhog Day in Brexit land…

Treasury Proposes Dubious, Untested Chapter 14 Bankruptcies for Too Big to Fail Banks

Treasury released an ideologically-driven proposal to change Dodd Frank’s resolution authority.

Another Brexit Mess: “Grandfathering” Existing Free Trade Agreements Looks Unlikely

Another item on the Brexit problem list: what to do about free trade agreements that will cease to apply to the UK on Brexit day.

How Hunter-Gatherers May Hold the Key to our Economic Future

Their relaxed approach to work stemmed from their faith in the providence of their environment and confidence in their ability to exploit it

Polar Ice Is Lost at Sea

An update on polar ice loss and its implications.

Financial Markets Have Taken Over the Economy. To Prevent Another Crisis, They Must Be Brought to Heel.

A detailed and well-argued explanation of how the growth in the role of financial markets has become destructive.

Government Shutdown Once Again Shows the Lies Behind Deficit Hysteria

How the wealthy use deficit scaremongering to keep wages down and stave off calls for more investment and social spending.

Gaius Publius: More on the Cape Town, South Africa, Water Crisis

Cape Town is becoming ground zero of water scarcity….a future that will arrive for many more in the coming decades.

Shareholder Proposals Target Climate Change Risk

Shareholders step up demands for companies disclose more information about the impact of climate change; these calls extend beyond energy companies.

The Age of Lunacy: The Doomsday Machine

The lunacy of current Trump foreign policy is not unprecedented. This RNN interview discusses similarly unhinged incidents from the 1950s and 1960s.

Wizards and Prophets Face Off to Save the Planet

How to feed 10 billion people? Wizards, as in technophiles, and prophets, conservationists, have very different answers.

UK Asks the Rest of the World to Be Super Duper Nice and Act as Its Old Deals Are Still Valid Post Brexit

Yet another Brexit train wreck.

Will Upcoming Brexit Negotiation Round Finally Cause Hard Core Brexiter Heads To Explode?

Brexit screeching gets ever louder as it becomes harder to keep reality at bay.