Don’t forget the stock market crash that the experts predicted would happen if Trump was elected.
When SPX futures briefly went down as the election returns came in, Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman said, “If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.”
Laxatives seem not to be working at first, as what has been distress becomes, for a short time, even worse distress, but once the short-term crisis is past, the entire body feels much better, having gotten rid of that now useless burden and impediment.
EU has imposed an artificial constipation upon its member states, forcing them to take steps that restrict what may be the better course of action for the individual country. Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain (PIGS) have largely depended on Germany and to some extent, France, to bail them out of their economic crises, while the poorly considered importation of relative illiterates from Africa and the Middle east have wreaked havoc upon the existing social systems of all of these countries, all while NOT providing a replacement work force for the aging and shrinking local populations of citizens.
Death spirals form their own distinctive patterns. Great Britain just happened to catch an ascending thermal.
Too bad Scotland was not cut loose. On their own, the native Scots people would soon realize their own self interest, but as long as they think they were being dragged along by the British, they shall continue to balk and resist. Highlander blood lines are better than that.