Jennifer Klein, producer of Armageddon and Pearl Harbor, holds her bash on the first Saturday of every December.
It's a strange irony that when living under the threat of Armageddon, people move their wealth before themselves.
Short of Armageddon in the region, it would appear that China is destined to make chips for itself and, one day, the world.
But first, it must survive a 90-minute test of nerve in a setting that may best be described as international soccer's equivalent of armageddon.
Despite the reports of Armageddon, only one tourist attraction in Memphis, on Mud Island, in the very middle of the Mississippi itself, closed to visitors (though the bridge to Mud Island remained open and the vast majority of its residents were unaffected).
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That deficits are exploited as signals of looming Armageddon is curious, and also easy to dismiss.
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Charles Calomiris, also warned of an Armageddon for European banks due to their over-weighted loan commitments to the European sovereigns.
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As an example, during the depths of financial Armageddon in 2008, it was seen as perfectly logical that the financial system as we know could be finished.
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Prophets of financial Armageddon were abundant then, as now.
That, combined with a rally in the stock market, is potentially a sign that investors are no longer so fearful of economic Armageddon that they are willing to give their cash to the government for short-term safe-keeping without any hope for return.
Are the wolves of Siberia crying out to us, announcing the coming Armageddon of the gem diamond business as we know it, with a collapse of prices, and the destruction of the downstream diamond industry structure?
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During the Armageddon of March 2009, we successfully raised our round for a Men's Footwear brand, thrive in the leanest teams under the highest stress constraints imaginable, and ultimately stepped up to help lead PROJECT's Footwear Startup of Year '09.
The Paramount film, which opens April 26 and is directed by Michael Bay of "Transformers" and "Armageddon" fame, is adapted from a series of Miami New Times articles about a group of 1990s bodybuilders who hatched a brutal get-rich-quick kidnapping scheme that eventually escalated to murder.
The consequences, as Secretary Geithner and many others, including the Speaker of the House, Senator Minority Leader, Congressman Ryan have pointed out, the consequences of not -- of failing to raise the debt ceiling would be Armageddon-like in terms of the economy on -- the impact on interest rates, on job creation, on growth would be devastating.
But the beautiful city with blue skies, a deep blue ocean and miles of beaches has become Armageddon.
While we have not seen a cyber-Armageddon type of attack that aims to undermine trust in online commerce, we have seen very targeted, very sophisticated attacks aimed at stealing information or compromising select assets.
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He says, for example, that the volume of subprime loans was too small to have caused Armageddon, but he skates over the huge amount of leverage that built up.
The classic cry of the hawks is that Armageddon is just around the corner.
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Spitzer has clearly put the fear of God, if not Armageddon, into AIG.
And that the countries in the eurozone must give up some sovereignty on fiscal policy, or face a euro armageddon in case of default.
If labor Armageddon forces the cancellation of the entire 2011-2012 campaign, Stern might rue the casualties 10 years from now.
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The price of the precious metal has risen 75% over the last year amid fears of everything from rapid inflation to financial Armageddon.
Daniel Franklin, co-editor of Megachange: The World in 2050 and business affairs editor at the Economist, told the Today programme's Sarah Montague that "the Armageddon industry makes a lot of noise... but underestimates our ability to adapt and be inventive".
Mr. Obama will marshal a parade of Wall Street and Federal Reserve worthies predicting Armageddon if the debt limit isn't raised as early as mid-May.
This Armageddon scenario is exaggerated but not out of the question.
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Nevertheless, his story of an unnamed father and son after an unnamed Armageddon, shambling ever southwards in an unnamed country, gradually conjures a compelling and memorable dread.
If Ms Williams does not intend to induce human horror at a pending bestial Armageddon, she at least invokes a future of earthly loneliness, where animals appear only as ceramic-hen butter dishes and endangered-species elastoplasts.
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