Recession Watch: The Coming Euro/Oil Crisis and a Possible Climateer Headline of the Day: August 1914 Edition

 If carbon hadn't already crashed this would be a dandy sign that it was going lower. As things stand right now the EU is trying to remove surplus emmissions permits from the system in a desperate attempt to increase prices.
So much for your "market based solutions".

Two from FT Alphaville. First up:
Euro crisis, Brent oil edition

Courtesy of Olivier Jakob at Petromatrix, FT Alphaville presents the price of front-month Brent oil futures expressed in euro terms:

That would be echoes of the 2008 record oil price. This time, only for Europe.
As Jakob notes:

There is currently not one day where we do not publish the chart of Brent in Euro/bbl and this is because we do think that the record prices for oil in Euro/bbl will be the next leg of the European crisis. The current record oil prices for European consumers will morph into a new energy crisis for Europe and it will hit both consumer sentiment and disposable income right at the time when austerity measures will kick in....

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FTA also has this morning's first entrant in the headline of the day contest:

The rights are going out all over Europe

Which is a play on a quote I've used for everything from Sylvania lighting stories to a post on the European debt dominoes:

"The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our time"

-Edward, Viscount Grey

British Foreign Secretary

 August 3, 1914

Sort of a cockney rhyming slang thing without the hemiteleia, lamps become lights which rhymes with rights which...
Ah hell, let's just give 'em the award.