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And there is the risk of state collapse, accompanied by the specter of border change.
Today, Venezuela’s economy is a full-blown disaster, with the
collapse
in growth and near-hyperinflation causing widespread human suffering.
A good economics in our own era would do three things: It would take precautions against 2008-level collapses; it would muster a robust counter-cyclical response to any
collapse
that does happen; and it would heed popular demands for economic fairness.
Indeed, the nightmare scenario haunting the world is the
collapse
of another shadow banking entity, causing global trade to freeze, as happened in 2008.
The
collapse
of Lehman Brothers in 2008 drove up risk premia and triggered panic in financial markets, weakening assets in the United States and elsewhere, and threatening to provoke a credit crunch.
This was the motivation behind the founding of the German Reichsbank (1875), which was a response to the stock-market and financial
collapse
of 1873, and the US Federal Reserve System (1914), which was established in the wake of the major financial crisis of 1907.
If several large, interconnected derivatives-trading banks
collapse
simultaneously, the financial system could be paralyzed, damaging the real economy – again.
Because the ideological
collapse
of left-wing politics in Japan has been as precipitous as in much of the Western world, the so-called liberal elites have lost much of their former influence.
For his part, Obama supported the Arab Spring uprisings, but offered no pro-democratic strategy – an approach that has led Libya to become a failed state, Egypt to become even more dictatorial, and Syria to
collapse
into nightmarish and protracted conflict.
For China, the North Korea problem cannot be reduced to concerns about regime
collapse
and a resulting wave of refugees.
Given that property prices are unlikely to fall by such a large margin, the bubble’s
collapse
would not bring down China’s banks.
But Leviathan's bleak portrait of contemporary Russian life actually confirms many of the reasons why Americans have been largely dubious about Russia's ability to reform following communism's
collapse.
After the period of rapid economic growth ended, Europe’s leaders came to rely, instead, on the threat of an evil that is greater than austerity: further destabilization of debtor countries, leading to default, expulsion from the eurozone, and economic, social, and political
collapse.
His creed became the ethos of a decade of corporate and financial-sector excesses that ended in the late 1980’s
collapse
of the junk-bond market and the Savings & Loan crisis.
With the
collapse
of the Soviet communist regime, the US continues to enjoy a dominant role in space exploration for peaceful and scientific development.
A recent study published in the journal Democratization shows that the overall level of liberal democracy worldwide now matches that recorded shortly after the
collapse
of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Mian and Sufi show that the recession was caused by a
collapse
of household consumption, and that consumption fell most in those counties where pre-crisis borrowing and post-crisis real-estate prices left households facing the largest relative losses in net wealth.
Everyone understands that compromise is preferable to the
collapse
of negotiations, disorderly default, and Greece’s forced exit from the eurozone.
The underlying idea is simple: every year, countries around the world set aside reserves as insurance against contingencies such as an abrupt downturn in foreign lenders' sentiment or a
collapse
of export prices.
But strategic reductions of wages to ever lower levels (the Uberization of society) cannot be rational, because the result would be a catastrophic collapse, owing to disappearing aggregate demand.
Russia today has less press freedom and more journalists, media workers, and bloggers behind bars than at any time since the Soviet Union’s
collapse
in 1991.
The US economy would be highly vulnerable in the case of a euro collapse, so today’s lame ducks need to embrace each other.
And, more to the point, they were successful: their eventual assassination of Conrad of Montferrat led directly to the political
collapse
of the Crusader coalition and the defeat of Richard the Lionheart of England.
For starters, the roof is starting to
collapse
on the global housing bubble, as housing markets begin to freeze up not only in the United States, but also in many other countries, such as high-flying Spain.
Unless he agrees to water down the new government’s pro-EU stance, runs the argument, he could very well suffer a rebellion and even the
collapse
of his majority.
It reflects Kazakhstan’s appreciation of the liberal world order into which it was born in 1991 – an order that, at that time, had just received a major boost, with the Soviet Union’s
collapse.
The lessons of the last oil shock, which came on the heels of a
collapse
in state-led industrialization in the mid-1980s, were hard to absorb.
Ever since Kemal Ataturk founded the republic of Turkey in 1923, in the troubled aftermath of the First World War and the
collapse
of the Ottoman Empire, the Turks have aspired and claimed to be part of Europe and the West.
Although ISIS’s self-styled caliphate is on the brink of collapse, an increase in terrorist attacks abroad is possible.
That, in turn, would have triggered the
collapse
of supposedly “too big to fail” banks and insurance companies, not just in Europe, but worldwide.
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