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The new silent majority is the best defense against the radical and suicidal undercurrents that have filled the political vacuum created by the
collapse
of the old order.
The fact is that the world economy is more open today than it has ever been, and will remain so even if the Doha talks
collapse.
If trust were to collapse, and the Iranian regime decided to abrogate all of the relevant international agreements, it is highly likely that it would get its weapon, even if the country itself was bombed repeatedly.
Iran, the US, and the EU all share an interest in stopping a war that is causing the Syrian state to
collapse
– with all of the consequences seen in Iraq since 2003 – and strengthening the forces of Sunni jihadism across the region.
Indeed, Italy’s banks epitomize all the problems that the financial crisis brought to the country, and on which the populists are capitalizing: a double-dip recession followed by sluggish GDP growth, high unemployment, especially among the young, and a
collapse
of domestic demand.
In the aftermath of the
collapse
of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, Italy’s then-finance minister Giulio Tremonti famously endorsed the health of the country’s banking system.
After communism's collapse, he worked with people like Anotoly Chubais in the liberal St. Petersburg government of the early 1990s.
In the years following the
collapse
of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe did seem to be integrating itself into Western political culture.
Dozens of international plans and proposals
collapse
one after the other.
Similarly, the cost of the public's aversion to air travel following the September 11 th terrorist attacks would have been much higher for the economy as a whole if the airline industry had been allowed to
collapse.
A typical case is a country whose terms of trade abruptly deteriorate - for example, Nicaragua after the recent
collapse
of coffee prices caused by Vietnam's bumper crop.
Turning Point at ChernobylThe nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl 20 years ago this month, even more than my launch of perestroika, was perhaps the real cause of the
collapse
of the Soviet Union five years later.
And yet one is tempted to ask the question: would a different political approach have avoided regime
collapse?
Lugo’s downfall was precipitated by the
collapse
of his legislative majority in the political fallout over a land conflict in the eastern district of Curuguaty.
But to save a financial system from
collapse
requires preventing all banks from failing at the same time.
But when the Federal Reserve allowed Lehman Brothers to fail in September of 2008, there was widespread panic, leading the Fed to intervene to prevent the
collapse
of every other major player.
Of all of China’s worries about North Korea, the most serious is that regime
collapse
– probably followed by state failure – could be perceived as a Chinese defeat and a US victory, with Korea reunified as part of the US alliance system.
Hungary played a special role in the
collapse
of Communism, accelerating the process by opening its borders for East German refugees.
Nevertheless, the 20th anniversary of the
collapse
of communism is overshadowed by the global financial and economic crisis.
During the controversy surrounding the Cypriot banking sector's
collapse
in 2013, Tsipras referred to EU leaders as “gangsters" – the same sort of rhetoric used by far-right European populists like Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders.
And, given the rising risk of a global systemic financial meltdown, the prospect of a decade-long L-shaped recession – like the one experienced by Japan after the
collapse
of its real estate and equity bubble – cannot be ruled out.
When policy actions don’t provide real relief to market participants, you know that you are one step away from a systemic
collapse
of the financial and corporate sectors.
One can argue that the worst is yet to come – that there will be more inflation and unemployment down the road – and that, when they come, the euro area will
collapse.
These, too, had external effects; but, at least in the short run, the medicine (distortions in capital markets) was generally considered less damaging than the disease (economic
collapse
in the advanced economies).
But just when they were supposed to be reaping the benefits of their hard work, the East Asian crisis of July 1997 caused commodity prices to collapse, which forced Russia into default in August 1998 and shut down all emerging markets through financial contagion.
Consequently, the Fed left its interest rate unchanged throughout the summer of 2008, despite the
collapse
of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, AIG’s insolvency, and the emergence of global financial-market contagion.
He inherited a financial system on the verge of
collapse.
If the Greek government defaulted or tried to abandon the euro, Greece’s banks would collapse, and Greeks who failed to get their money out of the country would lose their savings, as occurred in Cyprus in 2013.
As a result, the debtor countries’ bond prices would collapse, interest rates would soar, and banks would be threatened with
collapse.
But, with Syria immersed in a brutal civil war that has claimed more than 130,000 lives already, Libya on the verge of collapse, and Egypt returning power to the army and proscribing the Muslim Brotherhood, Tunisia has been the only success.
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