07 May 2020 Europe | Politics & Geopolitics

Brexit: The Illogical Comedy Version

(3 min read)

The Brexit endgame is upon us and it’s still anyone’s guess as to where we’ll end up on the outcome continuum. I anticipate two probable scenarios, and they’re both extreme. And since this whole situation is something of a comedy it seems best to me to take a comical approach to illustrate my reasoning – using the general market truth that whatever hurts the most desperate participants is typically what will happen to find my two endpoints, and then working backwards in an exercise of seeming illogicality...

The Brexit endgame is upon us and it’s still anyone’s guess as to where we’ll end up on the outcome continuum. I anticipate two probable scenarios, and they’re both extreme. And since this whole situation is something of a comedy it seems best to me to take a comical approach to illustrate my reasoning – using the general market truth that whatever hurts the most desperate participants is typically what will happen to find my two endpoints, and then working backwards in an exercise of seeming illogicality...

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