... on Friday afternoon JPMorgan trumped all of its banking peers with a report that is especially troubling if not so much for the implications from its "theoretical" modeling, but for the fact that Wall Street is now actively assessing what may be the start of World War 3.

In a note from the bank's economists Joseph Lupton and Bruce Kasman (available to pro subs) which picks up where our article "Shades Of 2008 As Oil Decouples From Everything" left off, JPM writes that oil shocks have a long history of driving cyclical downturns, with US recessions often associated with oil price spikes...

... most recently of course the surge in oil to all time highs in 2008, which some say sealed the fate of the global financial crisis.