✓ Mayan End of the Earth: didn't happen
✓ East Coast/Gulf port strike: didn't happen
✓ The Fiscal Cliff: happened; yawn
_ Debt Ceiling
_ Fiscal Cliff Redux (spending cuts; on/about the Ides of March, 2013)
_ The Great Recession of 2013
"We stood on the cliffs on a starless Mayan night..."