Category Archives: Doomsday scenarios

The United States’ Financial Quandary: ZIRP’s Only Exit Path Is a Crash

Michael Hudson takes a long, hard look at the origins and costs of the Fed’s ZIRP policy.

Economics v. the Earth: New Book Explores the History of a Tense Relationship

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind discuss how belief in infinite growth came to seem reasonable in philosophy and economics.

Energy Destinies – Part 4: Renewable Economics – At Cost

newable energy costs are not easy to figue out, and fully loaded, not favorable compared to the benchmark of grid parity.

Is Wagner Group Too Big to Fail?

John Helmer gives a somewhat contraian take on the Wagner Group and what the unwind of the Prigozhin affair means for Putin’s reelection.

Rising Sea Levels Will Isolate People Long Before They’re Underwater

One of the near term impacts of higher sea levels willl be balkanization of low-lying coastal areas.

Industrialism Is Bad for Our Health: The Series Continues

New studies shed more unflattering light on the impact of modern diets on health.

Central Banks, Green Finance, and the Climate Crisis

The tough policy choices ahead for confronting the climate crisis.

America Has Just Destroyed a Great Empire

America is making a mess in trying to preserve its hegemony.

Turkey Continues To Challenge Sweden’s NATO Membership

Turkiye is still playing hardball with NATO and Sweden.

Putin Orders Reality Check – No Ukrainians Left on the Battlefield, No Sovereignty in Kiev

Putin and the Foreign Minsitry explain why Russia will not sign a treaty with the territory known as Ukraine over ending the conflict.

Fog of Prigozhin: His Bizarre and Surely Doomed Military Revolt

Prigozhin has really completely lost it. But is his revolt as big a threat as the Western press seems to believe?

A New Third World Debt Crisis? The Need for System Change

Emerging economies look to be on the verge of a whole lotta debt hurt. Why does this happen to them so often?

Deadly Fungus Infections Rising Even as Doctors Keep Missing Them

Why you need to push your doctor hard to include fungus infection as a possible diagnosis for mystery ailments.

Energy Destinies – Part 2: Renewable Energy – Character Shortcomings

Satyajit Das provides another deep dive into the realities of the so-called energy transition.

Thus We Fall: June Temperature Spike Confirms Dire Climate Change Forecasts

The trajectory of climate change is starting to look worse.