The world is a complete shit-show right now and the economy is not amused.

Man, you said it. I've been mostly offline thanks to life stuff being just utterly chaotic so I'm definitely not keeping up on everything going on... but the US/Iran/Isreal shit is really kicking us deep into "if things don't improve they'll count this as the start of ww3 when writing the history books". Hopefully reasonable minds prevail and we get a bit of damned stability soon.