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It also played a critical role in the
collapse
of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In focusing on summit declarations and promises of far-reaching reforms of EU institutions, investors are missing the real risk: the
collapse
of public support for, or at least public acquiescence to, the austerity policies required to work down heavy debt burdens – and for the governments pursuing these policies.
When asked why they failed to include this facility in their declaration of nuclear programs, North Korean officials responded cheerfully – and absurdly – that it had been built from scratch only after the
collapse
of the nuclear negotiations in 2008.
South Koreans increasingly are coming to believe that North Korea will not be in the family of nations for long – that sooner or later (perhaps even in this decade), the North will
collapse
and its malnourished people will become future citizens of a reunified Republic of Korea.
In the coming weeks, South Korea’s government will confront one of the toughest choices that any government can face: whether the short-term cost in human lives is worth the potential long-term benefits (also in terms of human lives) that a famine-induced
collapse
of North Korea could bring.
Putin once famously observed that the Soviet Union’s
collapse
was the greatest catastrophe of the twentieth century.
Revisionist powers like Russia, China, and Iran appear ready to confront the global economic and political order that the US and the West built after the
collapse
of the Soviet Union.
Bubbles ForeverNEW HAVEN – You might think that we have been living in a post-bubble world since the
collapse
in 2006 of the biggest-ever worldwide real-estate bubble and the end of a major worldwide stock-market bubble the following year.
Yes, Russia is emerging from its humiliation following the
collapse
of the Soviet Union.
As economic
collapse
caused the public to lose faith in the private sector and markets, faith in government grew.
Even as bankers are back to reaping enormous bonuses, taxpayers have been left to foot the bill for the economic
collapse.
Ever since the
collapse
of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, it has been clear that the global crisis would challenge the EU and the euro, because Europe lacks a common government and fiscal policy.
The
collapse
of Latin America’s currency pegs in the financial crises of the 1990’s contributed to a shift in the world’s currency paradigm.
The JCPOA’s
collapse
would generate significant risks for the Middle East and the world.
During Yugoslavia’s violent collapse, adversaries never struck or invaded Serbia’s research reactor, powered by weaponizable enriched uranium.
And, most significant, during the
collapse
of the Soviet Union, the vast nuclear arsenal remained intact.
Worse, they inspire little confidence that the US can deal with future cases in which countries with nuclear assets find themselves in revolt, civil war, or political
collapse
– and with compromised domestic atomic safeguards risking the spread of nuclear havoc to other regions.
Recent studies by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the World Bank and the CASE Foundation show that geographical distance from centres of development, mountainous terrain, lack of "market memory"- recent historical experience of an entrepreneurial tradition - and failures of economic policy are the main causes of the lack of recovery after the
collapse
of the Soviet-era economy.
Is there anything we can learn from the last examples of this kind, from the
collapse
of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989, or the end of the Third Reich in Germany in 1945 and the process of "de-Nazification" that followed?
The road from the
collapse
of a dictatorial regime backed by ideology to a more liberal order leads through a valley of tears.
What is catastrophic is the
collapse
of state structures in many of the countries from which the terrorists come.
In the 1990s, Italy’s largely bipartisan system disintegrated when Christian Democracy was engulfed by corruption scandals and the Communist Party was pulled apart by the
collapse
of the Soviet Union.
Lever suggests that it was as much the memory of the currency
collapse
of 1945-1948 as of the hyperinflation of the 1920s that drove home this lesson.
The
collapse
in prices has been driven in part by supply-side factors.
This huge funding has so far saved the Greek banking system from collapse, and it constitutes the key advantage of joining a real monetary union as opposed Argentina’s ‘quasi-monetary union’ with the USD.
Black Monday was a big deal: the 22.6% price
collapse
is still the largest one-day percentage drop in the DJIA on record.
Or will he look for someone to blame for the
collapse
in his favorite economic indicator and lash out at the Democrats, foreign governments, and the Fed?
These cases will eventually
collapse
under the weight of their collective absurdity.
As a result, when the possibility arises that a money-market fund will be unable to pay investors in full – as happened after the
collapse
of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 – all hell breaks loose.
Technology may be advancing rapidly, but it will not cause time itself to
collapse.
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