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But by August, Allied forces broke through German lines, and a stunned Ludendorff, fearing a sudden
collapse
of his army, demanded that the newly constituted civilian government send an immediate request for an armistice.
Both the ALDE and the European People’s Party Group (Christian Democrats) are expected to suffer severe losses, owing to Brexit and the larger
collapse
of the political mainstream in France, Germany, and Italy.
The Fairness of Financial RescueBERKELEY – Perhaps the best way to view a financial crisis is to look at it as a
collapse
in the risk tolerance of investors in private financial markets.
Maybe the
collapse
stems from lousy internal controls in financial firms that, swaddled by implicit government guarantees, lavish their employees with enormous rewards for risky behavior.
The
collapse
of asset bubbles in the 1990’s left Japan’s financial system and private sector saddled with a huge debt overhang.
As I read the transcripts, I recalled the long history dating back to 1825, and before, in which the uncontrolled failure of major banks triggered panic, a flight to quality, the
collapse
of asset prices, and depression.
In the aftermath of the housing bubble’s
collapse
and extraordinary losses in the derivatives market, Summers noted, banks would have to diminish leverage.
In the US, the
collapse
of the tech bubble in 2000 entailed a $4 trillion loss in market capitalization.
In the US, for example, new securities laws were passed following the stock market crash of 1929, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was adopted in 2002, in the immediate aftermath of the
collapse
of the Internet bubble and the Enron and WorldCom scandals.
Italian Politics and Europe’s FutureNEW YORK – More than ever, the European Union needs unity to assert its values and interests in an age when US global leadership is on the verge of collapse, China is ascendant, and Russia wavers yet again between cooperation and confrontation with the EU.
A total
collapse
of religious norms would truly be destabilizing.
In attempting to save governments through fiscal austerity, banks are threatened with balance-sheet losses and a sudden
collapse
in confidence, while households suffer much higher unemployment.
Rather, it is a by-product of its own acute fears of regime
collapse.
Similarly, on all aspects of European defense integration within the European Union, France had long been the most ardent advocate of the sanctity of national sovereignty; her recent rapprochement to NATO was possible only because the Western Alliance, with the
collapse
of its old rival, has become a more traditional military pact anyway, less shaped by American leadership and more open to intergovernmental bargaining.
After all, it is impossible to avoid all risk, and, at a certain point, the level of inefficiency generated by excessive robustness would create new risks of
collapse.
The Real Risk to the Global EconomyWASHINGTON, DC – One of the great mysteries of today’s global markets is their irrepressible enthusiasm, even as the world around them appears on the verge of chaos or
collapse.
Similarly, a full-scale political or economic
collapse
in Venezuela would have serious regional implications, and might result in an even deeper humanitarian crisis there.
After all, North Korea’s sudden
collapse
or a military conflict on the peninsula would undermine regional security, while burdening neighboring countries with millions of refugees and hundreds of billions of dollars in reconstruction costs.
But China is reluctant to squeeze North Korea, because it fears that doing so could lead to the
collapse
of the Kim regime, and the loss of its strategic buffer against the US.
For, although government is now clearly centered on the party, the regime could yet unravel, and perhaps collapse, if the food shortage is not resolved and other power structures decide to step into the breach.
In November, the annual price growth was just 0.3%, while the recent
collapse
in oil prices will generate further downward pressure in the coming months.
Given North Korea’s ability to scare China with its geographic proximity and the prospect of a sudden
collapse
(with all its security implications, including an influx of refugees), these divisions are likely to grow.
Will we acknowledge our predicament only when our land becomes a desert, when our health systems
collapse
under the strain, when even the wealthy are facing food shortages, when freshwater becomes scarce, and when our national shorelines are breached?
The industry contends that the existence of these living wills – showing how a big bank’s
collapse
could be handled without causing global financial panic – means that “too big to fail” is over.
After all, who in 1985 would have predicted the Soviet Union’s collapse, Poland’s democratization, or Germany’s reunification?
Although the postwar population boom and heavy regulation meant that real estate prices in many countries went up more often than down, a sudden
collapse
of the property market--such as happened in Japan a decade ago--may dramatically reduce the value of most people's savings.
As a Venezuelan who is seeing his country
collapse
at this very moment, I do not doubt that there have been many instances in human history during which those in power have prevented progress.
When Mikhail Gorbachev allowed Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe to
collapse
in 1989, he did so not on a whim, but because hegemony had become unaffordable.
Indeed, it is now clear that governments prevented a full-scale
collapse
of the financial system in 2008 by transforming toxic private debt into public debt.
They might be right; then again, back in 2008, US policymakers thought that the
collapse
of one investment house, Bear Stearns, had prepared markets for the bankruptcy of another, Lehman Brothers.
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