Risk

Identifying Risk, January 2012

In Top Risks 2012, Eurasia Group noted that as we begin 2012, political risks dominate global headlines in a way we've not experienced in decades. Everywhere you look in today's global economy, concerns over insular, gridlocked, or fractured politics affecting markets stare back at you. To assess Eurasia's likely accuracy, please see the group's 2011 forecasts below.

Halcyon Identifies

posted on 3 January 2012

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Identifying global catastrophic risks

In Global Catastrophic Risks, experts looked at the gravest risks facing humanity in the 21st century, including natural catastrophes, nuclear war, terrorism, global warming, biological weapons, totalitarianism, advanced nanotechnology, general artificial intelligence, and social collapse.

Halcyon Identifies

posted on 13 October 2011

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Identifying potential risks of future social unrest

If we don't reverse the current trend in food prices, we've only got until August 2013 before social unrest sweeps the planet, claimed two complexity theorists in a leading academic forum. (It's sometimes said that any society is three square meals from anarchy.)