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According to Nobel laureate economist Robert J. Shiller, the cyclically adjusted price-earnings (CAPE) ratio of 31.3 is currently about 15% higher than it was in mid-2007, on the
brink
of the subprime crisis.
The Eurozone’s Calm Before the StormNEW YORK – A little more than a year ago, in the summer of 2012, the eurozone, faced with growing fears of a Greek exit and unsustainably high borrowing costs for Italy and Spain, appeared to be on the
brink
of collapse.
As the investors flee, and the Asian currencies crumble, the banking systems of Asia are put against the
brink
of collapse.
We have been brought to the
brink
of an alarming evolutionary transformation, not just of human capacities, but of the individual self.
In 1992, as the emerging Russian Federation teetered on the
brink
of economic and monetary collapse, he opted for radical reform, prompting a backlash from vested interest groups.
The only thing that seems to be holding us back from the
brink
is that dictatorships are out of fashion nowadays in Europe.
In February 2015, the country was on the
brink
of a financial meltdown because its international currency reserves had slumped to a mere $5 billion, and its plummeting exchange rate was sending buyers into a panic.
In Finland, the anti-European True Finns party has shot up from nowhere to the
brink
of power.
Of the 238 cases, 149 children died in the institutions where they lived rather than in a hospital, raising alarm about why, on the
brink
of death, a child was not transferred immediately to a hospital intensive-care unit.
Think about the critical moment of decision – when a megabank, like JP Morgan Chase (with a balance sheet of roughly $2 trillion), may be on the
brink
of failure.
On previous occasions, whenever the financial system came to the
brink
of a breakdown, the authorities got their act together and pulled it back from the
brink.
As shareholders’ equity is the only real buffer against losses in these corporations, this means that a 4% decline in their assets’ value would completely wipe out their shareholders – taking the companies to the
brink
of insolvency.
But that didn’t prevent America’s leaders from turning to the same people who helped create the mess, who didn’t see the problems until they brought us to the
brink
of another Great Depression, and who have been veering from one bail-out to another, to rescue us.
Twenty years is no time at all in the life of a country and yet, having teetered on the
brink
of state failure in 1994, Rwandans today face the future with optimism and unwavering determination.
Pulling Nigeria Back from the BrinkOnce again, Nigeria seems at the
brink
of disintegration, this time with the threat by parliament to impeach President Olesegun Obasanjo.
Yet the massive economic and financial dislocations that would come to a boil in late 2008 and continue through early 2009 – which brought the world to the
brink
of a devastating multi-year depression – took policymakers in advanced economies completely by surprise.
Through this partnership, the SDF brought ISIS to the
brink
of collapse.
Only a couple – notably governance-challenged Venezuela – are in outright collapse; but many are teetering on the
brink
of recession.
In a doom loop, the expectations of default drive up risk premia until the economy reaches the
brink
of collapse, even if the underlying problems could be managed over time.
The European Union seems on the
brink
of collapse, and many non-Europeans view the old continent as a retired power that can still impress the world with its good manners, but not with nerve or ambition.
With brutal crackdowns in Syria, a bloody civil war in Libya, and Yemen teetering on the
brink
of chaos, the number of skeptics is growing.
The world, it appears, is on the
brink
of Cold War II.
As Solzhenitsyn wrote in his memoir The Oak and the Calf : “as late as 1966, he [Khrushchev] sent me New Year’s greetings—which astonished me because I was on the
brink
of arrest.
As a result, genetics has brought science to the
brink
of a new era of enlightenment, in which individuals are understood in terms of the relationships among their unique genomic data.
This October will mark the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis, when US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev managed – by luck as much as judgment – to pull back from the
brink
of nuclear war.
In some cases during 2012, politics was a force for good: consider Prime Minister Mario Monti’s ability to pull Italy back from the
brink
of financial turmoil.
It uses media as a propaganda tool, driving what few independent outlets remain to the
brink
of extinction.
One can only hope that the lunatics in the Republican Party who forced a government shutdown and pushed the country to the
brink
of default will decide against a repeat performance.
Their financial innovations made them extremely rich but brought America and the global economy to the
brink
of ruin.
A Liquid EuropeBRUSSELS – Is the eurozone stepping back from the
brink?
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