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As much as pundits like to predict the
collapse
of the Saudi Arabian monarchy, they are likely to be disappointed once again.
In fact, the country is on the verge of total
collapse.
Cyprus also holds a more general lesson: Given the extreme reaction of financial markets to the
collapse
of Lehman Brothers in 2008, it had become axiomatic among European policymakers that no bank should be allowed to become insolvent.
Professor Maury Obstfeld of the University of California at Berkeley and I have been warning for some time that without pro-active policy adjustments, the dollar is vulnerable to a sharp collapse, with many attendant risks.
In July, I described the unprecedented nature of Venezuela’s economic calamity, documenting the
collapse
in output, incomes, and living and health standards.
At the same time, Europe’s leaders are under pressure from a new generation of voters, who grew up in the shadow of the Berlin Wall’s
collapse.
In a speech marking the state gas monopoly Gazprom’s tenth anniversary in 2003, Putin stated his position explicitly, speaking of the company as one of the few strong geopolitical levers left to Russia after the Soviet
collapse.
Their identities and borders were established by Western imperial powers after the
collapse
of the Ottoman Empire.
To insist that all contracts be fulfilled would “cause a
collapse
of very large portions of the web,” with “serious economic and incalculable social and political consequences.”
Consider the
collapse
of Lehman Brothers.
The core insight is that no one can rule out the occurrence of an Old Testament-style event – war, famine, pestilence, or societal
collapse.
“Without our Constitution, America is just another world power made great by wealth and weapons instead of by values and convictions; so we are at risk of
collapse
when our wealth and weapons fail us.
Indeed, much of what was done immediately after the
collapse
of US investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2008 was exactly right, though central bankers had no guidebook.
It is the 20 million more who are displaced, desperate, and seeking to escape violence, civil war, state failure, desertification, and economic
collapse
in large parts of the Middle East and Africa.
If Europe is unable to find a coordinated solution to this problem and enforce a common external border, the Schengen Agreement will
collapse
and internal borders between the EU member states will reappear.
With that, the Sykes-Picot system began to
collapse.
China's search for an alternative social and economic arrangement became urgent with the student revolt of 1989, the subsequent Tienanmien massacre, and the
collapse
of the Soviet Bloc.
In Italy, the populist Five Star Movement and the nationalist League party have united in a flaky governing coalition following the electoral
collapse
of the country’s mainstream political forces.
Once investors began to move their assets into more stable currencies, the local currency would depreciate and bond prices would
collapse.
After the Soviet collapse, the West, writes Lukin, had two options: make a serious attempt to integrate Russia into the Western world by bringing it into NATO and offering a new Marshall Plan, or cut piece after piece from what he calls this “center of the inimical world.”
The immediate consequence of attempting to implement these doctrines in Russia was economic
collapse.
Since the economic
collapse
of 2008-2009, globalism and its supporting economic rules and norms have been challenged not just by US President Donald Trump, but by populists entering the European mainstream.
These changes at the top are occurring in a context of severe economic decline brought on by the
collapse
of world oil prices; budget revenue has been depleted to the point that the fiscal deficit reached 15% of GDP last year.
Now, after the bubbles have burst, and the property market’s inevitable
collapse
has been followed by that of banks, public finances, and labor markets, the villains must be punished.
Adenauer had witnessed the full scope of the German tragedy – including two world wars and the
collapse
of the Weimar Republic – and he considered the young Federal Republic’s ties with the West to be more important than German reunification.
In the years since the
collapse
of the Soviet Union, neither EU nor European national policymakers have devised a coherent strategy setting out the relationship that Europe wants with the Russian Federation.
The ongoing Trump-Russia scandal ranks among the country’s most famous – including the Teapot Dome affair of the 1920s, the
collapse
of the energy giant Enron in the early 2000s, and more recently Bernie Madoff’s Wall Street Ponzi scheme – and it is all the more menacing for involving a hostile power.
However, historical experience offers little guidance on what the sequence should be because the scale of the transformations required by the
collapse
of communism is unprecedented.
Given Chang’s pivotal role in steering North Korea’s moribund economy, his execution raised serious doubts about the regime’s stability – raising fears of the
collapse
of a dynasty that possesses weapons of mass destruction.
China could have vetoed both resolutions, in order to avoid North Korea’s
collapse
and the inflows of refugees that would result from it.
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