This week I searched the bookcase and dusted off my copy of Nuclear War Survival Skills that I bought back in the 80s. Having turned 30 years old in 1984 and thinking I had lots of time ahead of me I ordered the book just in case the unthinkable happened. I was not about to slouch towards Bethlehem willingly, despite that rough beast whose hour may have come at last.

As I leafed through the pages a couple of random memories struck me, like a well placed critical mass of linear U-235 dominoes about to be toppled.

Rising inflation, War in Ukraine, and central banks finally ready to raise interest rates, means that bonds are getting massacred.

Because I still consider myself an anthropologist/archaeologist, despite not doing any work in anthropology for a few years, I'm a member of the American Anthropology Association.

12 years ago Greece went into a debt crisis. Greece wasn't allowed to default on the debt. Instead they were forced into severe austerity.