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It is putting forward economically and politically impossible recommendations, telling Argentina to cut public services to the extreme, when schools and hospitals are already on the verge of
collapse.
In 2014 alone, ordinary people suffered from heat waves in Australia, floods in Pakistan, and droughts in Central America, while the
collapse
of the West Antarctic ice sheet has been shown to be irreversible.
So if Villalobos and Dieterich are right about the FARC’s imminent collapse, it would be a veritable milestone for the region, and a vindication of a strategy – Uribe’s – of which many of us were wary.
Should they fail to accomplish this, however, the result could be widespread, accelerated state
collapse
and the impoverishment and potential radicalization of millions of people.
Bush is playing a dangerous game, risking the
collapse
of Pakistan’s political process for the sake of his own legacy.
In response to the
collapse
of demand in 1929, it erected high tariff walls.
That vote will be a prelude to France’s presidential election in the spring, where a victory for the far-right National Front’s Marine Le Pen would almost certainly bring about the definitive
collapse
of the European Union, if not of the entire geopolitical West.
It has so far failed to integrate sufficiently to prevent its own collapse, and its reaction to Brexit has been to procrastinate.
The Unexamined CrisisCHICAGO – Three years have now passed since the
collapse
of Lehman Brothers, which triggered the start of the most acute phase of the 2007-2008 financial crisis.
The North Koreans consider any reliance on the outside world as a source of weakness, even though their economy would
collapse
without Chinese handouts.
But China, which fears a
collapse
of the North Korean regime above all, does not want to antagonize Kim.
In an effort to save the financial system from
collapse
– and, later, in pursuit of economic recovery – the Fed has engaged in very active policies: near-zero interest rates, massive asset-purchase programs, remuneration of banks’ reserves, and so forth.
The story of the
collapse
of Lehman Brothers a decade ago is a case in point – but with a slight twist.
The great lesson to be learned from the
collapse
of Lehman Brothers is that technology should be designed and used to empower people, not to replace them.
In that case, North Korea will gradually become more unstable, despite China’s support, as economic
collapse
undermines its quasi-legitimate leadership.
By and large, these developments enhance an economy’s resilience to shocks and prevent economic
collapse.
The Great Real Estate Bust of 2008NEW HAVEN – What brought on the
collapse
of home prices in 2008 that is the root of the financial crisis now enveloping much of the world?
They said that the borrowers had behaved badly, when the real problem was that the international system had created a veritable "house of cards," in which a mountain of short-term inter-bank loans could suddenly be reversed, causing economic
collapse
in debtor countries.
Many people who remember the
collapse
of the Soviet Union in 1991 and its tumultuous aftermath believe that Russia’s economy today must be impoverished and unstable – and far behind booming China.
In fact, the
collapse
of world oil prices after 1985 contributed to the severe economic crisis in the Soviet Union and Russia in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s.
They represent a
collapse
of governance; these are the wages of the sins of administrative incompetence and political malfeasance.
In the aftermath of the subprime crisis and the
collapse
of Lehman Brothers, fingers were pointed at the United States as an example of how badly things could go wrong.
Because they know that it will take time for domestic demand to pick up, emerging markets are unwilling to risk a
collapse
in exports to the US by allowing their currencies to strengthen against the dollar too quickly.
The good news is that China’s leaders seem intent on adopting a similar approach, including avoidance of monetary and fiscal expansion, unless growth seems set to
collapse.
According to Bernanke’s “debt deflation” theory, the
collapse
in consumer prices was one of the causes of the Great Depression, since deflation raised the real value of debts, making it difficult to repay loans.
That, together with the counterfactual – the economic calamity that would befall Germany following a
collapse
of the euro – implies a unique obligation to maintain it.
But the system’s extreme progressivity makes proceeds so volatile that the state continually experiences boom-bust cycles of rapidly rising revenue, inevitably followed by
collapse.
We, too, run the risk of civilizational
collapse.
And almost everybody was critical of the rescue programs, urging Obama either to nationalize the banks and auto companies or let them
collapse.
Russia will have to confront the impact of a
collapse
in oil prices on its petro-economy.
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