The downsizing of the financial services industry, the wracking times for the automobile industry, as well as the brewing disasters in commercial real estate which have New York developers in a panic of fear and debt don't seem to suggest a rapid economic recovery.
Add the fact that the United States also imposes the highest tax rate among industrialized nations — 35percentt — and analysts see a brewing economic disaster, as some U.S. firms avoid major investments at home while others flee to Ireland and other low-tax countries.
"It's just the perfect storm: You've got zero rates which are unheard of, squashing net interest margins like never before in history; the greatest regulation ever limiting fees, raising costs, demanding more capital; and then you've got a brewing economic disaster in Europe," said Trone.
Climate change is an increasingly potent element in the deadly brew of disaster risk.
Meanwhile, there's some kind of controversy/nationwide disaster brewing in the 110m hurdles, where the Chinese hurdling sensation Liu Xiang, who is the reigning Olympic and World Champion over the jumps, is, apparently out.
Both the House and Senate are so terrified to actually vote on whether we go to war that they promptly ended their fall session more than a week early so they could go home and campaign for the midterm elections free of any and all responsibility for the brewing foreign policy disaster they are facilitating.
At one point, sensing disaster brewing, Sister Assumpta lines up the usual suspects, who've not only created an obscene and blasphemous comic book but who have also managed to make off with the life-size statue of the school's patron saint, Agatha, leaving an impudent ransom note, and who, she rightly fears, have worse in mind.
Couple that with the increased amount of development along the world's coastlines, and a pattern of insurers retreating from these areas, and you could see a new age of economic disaster brewing (see: Cursing Katrina).
One expert called it a witch's brew of potential disaster.
But up the hillsides, disaster is brewing.
