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When the heads of the EU’s member states met in Brussels to deal with the Greek crisis, the interbank market, which is decisive for the liquidity of financial institutions, had started to freeze, just like after the
collapse
of Lehmann Brothers in September 2008.
Leaders talk about “systemic risks” and the necessity of bailouts, but at the same time let those responsible for two consecutive systemic failures maintain the same global casino that twice brought the world near
collapse.
Indeed, there are good reasons for believing that the Tea Party movement in the United States, connected as it is with the economic disaster that followed Lehman’s collapse, is one of the channels of the energy released by the crisis.
To be sure, Iran’s alliances are vulnerable to erosion and, in the case of two staunch allies, Syria and Venezuela, to outright
collapse.
Financial markets, through which investment is made, were always liable to
collapse
when something happened to disturb business confidence.
This means that the “underpricing of risk worldwide,” which Alan Greenspan identified as the root cause of the banking
collapse
of 2007-08, is impossible.
The classical view of the economy, which Keynes set out to demolish, is not only alive, but in recent years has been dominant, feeding the belief that competitive markets can be left to regulate themselves, will always provide as much employment as is wanted, and are immune to large-scale
collapse.
The first – around 30% of the voting population – is made up of political extremes, mostly hard core communist supporters for whom "party discipline"and unqualified hatred of everything since the Soviet Union's
collapse
trumps all other considerations.
Partly in response to the Soviet collapse, India embraced capitalism without reservation, which has produced spectacular economic progress.
The dissolution of the Soviet Union, too, had much to do with the
collapse
of its multinational structure.
But Germany no longer needs to be kept “down,” and there is some debate whether Russia should have been kept “out” after the
collapse
of the Soviet Union.
Liberalization took hold out of economic desperation – the “special period” that followed the
collapse
in 1991 of the Soviet Union, Cuba’s long-time benefactor.
Words demanding that Russian troops leave Hungarian territory culminated in the
collapse
of the communist regime.
Are we witnessing the
collapse
of yet another economic bubble, as many analysts are claiming?
China’s economy is on the brink of collapse, pessimists warned.
Recent events – the growing number of high-level defections from the regime’s leadership, the killing of three of President Bashar al-Assad’s most senior officials in a bomb attack, and the rebellion’s spread into Damascus itself – suggest that, after a long period of gradual decline, the Assad regime is now approaching
collapse
or implosion.
The worst inter-communal fighting took place in the plains to the east of the Alawites’ mountain strongholds, raising the suspicion that Alawites were preparing for a retreat to their native region in the event of the regime’s
collapse
and were trying to expand the area under their control.
These defections have weakened the regime, reinforced the opposition, and sent a message of inevitable
collapse.
It is still too early to predict the regime’s imminent
collapse.
The number of casualties – not just from the violence, but also the
collapse
of health services and other consequences of state failure – is probably in the millions.
His managed judiciary provides no comfort to ordinary people; and the country’s military installations, submarines, oilrigs, mining shafts, hospitals, and retirement homes regularly blow up, collapse, or sink, owing to neglect and zero liability.
By overplaying its hand in Afghanistan and lying to the world about the downing of KAL 007, the Soviet regime exposed and accelerated the rot that made its
collapse
inevitable.
And trades do go wrong: remember the
collapse
of Long-Term Capital Management.
Underdevelopment in many countries of the South, which are faring poorly in their struggle to remain viable in a globalizing world, creates conditions of desperate poverty, ecological
collapse
and rootless, unemployed populations beyond the control of atrophying state systems.
This phase culminated with the
collapse
of communism in 1989, but the chance to overcome the Continent’s historical divisions now required a redefinition of the European project.
First and foremost, the political elite might suddenly back away from essential structural reforms, and the Mexican business community’s current optimism could
collapse.
Thus, a dramatic decline in the real economy, following the
collapse
of the financial house of cards, will have serious consequences for Germany and the EU.
At the same time, it is extremely unlikely that Russian-German cooperation on the Nord Stream project would
collapse.
Higher leverage allows bankers to earn more money, but it can easily become excessive for shareholders – because it makes the banks more vulnerable to
collapse
– and it is terrible for taxpayers and all citizens, as they face massive downside costs.
Adrift in Trump’s New CenturyWASHINGTON, DC – The late British historian Eric Hobsbawm famously called the period between Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination in 1914 and the Soviet Union’s
collapse
in 1991 the “short twentieth century.”
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