A Pessimist's guide to 2016
Some smart people at Bloomberg predicted a January to remember.
Or perhaps better yet,
to forget.
They seem to have been incredibly bright
since so far, about the New Year they've been more or less right:
In the first two weeks the world stock markets have been on the boil,
due to a Chinese economic slowdown and surplus oil.
Now, thanks partly to the generosity of our President and Secretary of State,
Iran ,this weekend,
will get its hands on a hundred billion dollars plus the ability to sell oil
into a market already glutted.
with no chance of being rebutted,
causing potential further disasters difficult to calculate,
since about predicting the Middle East no one is deft
and there are still a couple of weeks in January left!
Oh, some Wise One, please tell me:
Where can I go to hibernate? Or meditate?
or something in between--
to survive the next 11 plus months until 2017?
HzL
1/16/16
A Pessimist's Guide to the World in 2016
Oil prices soar after Islamic State destroys facilities across the Middle East. Angela Merkel is forced to resign, throwing the European Union into disarray. The dollar slumps as Russian and Iranian hackers team up to launch cyber-attacks on U.S banks. Bloomberg News asked dozens of former and current diplomats, geopolitical strategists, security consultants, and economists to identify the possible worst-case scenarios, based on current global conflicts, that concern them most heading into 2016.
Oil prices soar after Islamic State destroys facilities across the Middle East. Angela Merkel is forced to resign, throwing the European Union into disarray. The dollar slumps as Russian and Iranian hackers team up to launch cyber-attacks on U.S banks. Bloomberg News asked dozens of former and current diplomats, geopolitical strategists, security consultants, and economists to identify the possible worst-case scenarios, based on current global conflicts, that concern them most heading into 2016.
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