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Rubin, a former US Treasury Secretary and ex-Chairman of Goldman Sachs, presided over the
collapse
of Citigroup while taking home $150 million in bonuses.
Instead of controlling the extremists, a robust Israeli security presence in Palestine would precipitate the
collapse
of its institutions.
Exports to the Union have soared since 1991, when the
collapse
of the Soviet-era COMECON trading system forced a radical reorientation of trade - helped by massive foreign investment from the EU - towards Western markets.
After the
collapse
in 1945 of the Japanese empire, which had ruled quite brutally over the whole of Korea since 1910, the Soviet Red Army occupied the north, and the US occupied the south.
The tragedy of Korea is that no one really wishes to change the status quo: China wants to keep North Korea as a buffer state, and fears millions of refugees in the event of a North Korean collapse; the South Koreans could never afford to absorb North Korea in the way that West Germany absorbed the broken German Democratic Republic; and neither Japan nor the US would relish paying to clean up after a North Korean implosion, either.
The first diplomatic reset, at the end of George H.W. Bush’s presidency, took major steps toward defusing the nuclear dangers resulting from the
collapse
of the Soviet Union.
But the second war over Kosovo in 1999 led to the
collapse
of that reset.
The Obama administration’s reset – the fourth since the Soviet
collapse
– was the most successful, at least during the president’s first term in office.
To A Ukrainian SpringEvery person living in Ukraine is forced to believe in three great falsehoods: the first consists of the assumption that all of today's humiliating disorders - economic collapse, poverty, unemployment - are natural consequences of our postcommunist transition.
Instead of pumping symbolism into a suspect success, Western leaders must work to prevent the mission’s
collapse.
With the
collapse
of the second bubble in a decade, central banks again acted quickly, lowering rates to zero (or close to it) almost everywhere.
So, given the weakness of many governments, the probability that the whole EMU project will
collapse
is very great.
Obama continues to support President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, while Putin has been backing the regime, owing to fear that its
collapse
would usher in a radical Sunni-led government – or chaos.
The recent catastrophic
collapse
of global trade talks is not an encouraging harbinger.
For example, China needs a stronger exchange rate to help curb manic investment in its export sector, and thereby reduce the odds of a 1990’s style
collapse.
But when the bank announced a first-half loss of €3.6 billion ($4.7 billion), the sudden
collapse
of confidence was alarming, and nervous investors are asking whether there are similar time bombs ticking elsewhere.
The US would return to the arrangements that brought the world’s financial system to the brink of complete
collapse
in 2008 – and caused the country to lose at least one year’s GDP (more than $20 trillion).
What is certain is that the vacuum left by Sharon’s departure from politics is all the more striking in view of the images of chaos emerging from the Gaza that Israel has vacated, and the
collapse
of the Palestinian authority before our eyes.
Less certain, however, is the premise that the world order would
collapse
without “American leadership.”
Finally, in September 1931, Britain departed from the restored gold standard, which led to the
collapse
of the system as a whole.
How summers and crises go together was obvious in the event that triggered the first big
collapse
of the gold standard, the outbreak of WWI in 1914.
A debtor’s negotiating strategy is to make creditors believe that a
collapse
would produce some much bigger catastrophe, which can be avoided only by more concessions and more support.
Capital flight, interest-rate spikes, declining private investment, and a
collapse
in the value of the dollar – all of these are likely should financial markets lose confidence in a Fed chairman.
But, since the global financial crisis, the need to revive and sustain economic growth in the US, the United Kingdom, and Japan – and to avoid financial
collapse
in the eurozone – has prompted major central banks to be more outspoken and pursue more aggressive monetary policies, including unconventional measures like quantitative easing (QE).
A similar
collapse
now is likely to have a rather different effect.
Recognizing this truth is highly consequential: The regional order created in the wake of the empire’s post-World War I
collapse
may well be arbitrary, but any attempt to change it is likely to lead to even more bloodshed.
Global commodity prices will collapse, and prices for many goods and services will stop rising so quickly as unemployment and excess capacity grow.
This theory recalls that of the British historian Arnold Toynbee, according to which empires
collapse
because they are unable to react to external challenges.
What a distance Poland has travelled since communism's
collapse
in 1989!
Instead, conflict broke out between Hamas and Fatah, leading to Fatah’s
collapse
and desperate flight from Gaza.
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