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The end of American preeminence in education, the
collapse
of private-sector unions, the emergence of a winner-take-all information-age economy, and the return of Gilded Age-style high finance have produced an extraordinarily unequal pre-tax distribution of income, which will burden the next generation and make a mockery of equality of opportunity.
The impending
collapse
in Europe, the global drop in risk appetite, and slower world trade are already having an impact on the region’s economies.
Civilians would suffer considerably in such a “permanently degraded cyber environment,” which could include the
collapse
of energy and utility services.
The frequency of such mentions, adjusted for the number of printed pages per year, first jumped in 1969, following the
collapse
of the London Gold Pool, an arrangement in which eight central banks cooperated to support the dollar’s peg to gold.
Use of the phrase soared in the 1970s, following the
collapse
of the Bretton Woods system, of which the dollar was the linchpin, and in response to the high inflation that accompanied the presidencies of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter in the 1970s.
In theory, inflation (particularly commodity-induced inflation, as in 1973 or 1979) could precipitate a
collapse.
Russia, meanwhile, harbors deep disappointment with the West for its actions after communism’s
collapse.
In the automobile sector, the default exceeds $3 billion, leading to a
collapse
in transport services as a result of a lack of spare parts.
According to the conventional wisdom, the authorities consistently intervened not only to try to boost the market after the collapse, but also during its year-long run-up, when the Shanghai Stock Exchange composite index more than doubled.
But so, too, could be the organizations that have presided over a breathtaking
collapse
of so many fisheries and left a once-bountiful marine environment – and the lives and livelihoods of many fishermen – damaged and degraded in their wake.
There is no doubt that China currently is suffering from the global
collapse
in demand for a wide range of manufactured products.
One is that Japan still suffers from the
collapse
of a financial bubble in the late 1980s.
However, in Russia's case two thirds of the rise in crime came before 1992 during the
collapse
of communism, and crime has stagnated after 1992.
As communism approached its collapse, people profited ever more from distorted state regulations, such as multiple exchange rates and multiple prices, as the old controls fell apart.
Perhaps the most prominent example from 2008 is the way that the failure of the investment bank Lehman Brothers risked brining about the imminent
collapse
of the insurer AIG, while also leading to intense pressure on money-market mutual funds.
It was the
collapse
of these brutal systems in the wake of the United States-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the Arab Spring of 2011 that created the current refugee crisis.
The US may no longer be the world’s undisputed leader, as it was in the decade following the Soviet Union’s collapse, but it nonetheless has a vital role to play in international affairs.
When the pyramid starts crumbling, government – that is, taxpayers – must step in to refinance the banking system, revive mortgage markets, and prevent economic
collapse.
The interwar period, which suffered from a similar crisis of leadership, produced not only a
collapse
of globalization, but a devastating armed conflict on a global scale.
The new pessimism comes not from Marxists, who have always looked for telltale signs of capitalism’s collapse, but from the heart of the policymaking establishment: Larry Summers, former US President Bill Clinton’s Secretary of the Treasury, and chief economist of almost everything at one time or another.
Are you ready to say, “Okay, kids, I inherited this house, but I neglected to maintain it, so you will have to worry that the roof might
collapse
at any time”?
In the West, this interest derives in part from declining faith in traditional trade unionism; in the postcommunist East it was stimulated by the speedy
collapse
of state socialism.
In his article, Putin did not mourn the
collapse
of the USSR, though he previously called it “the greatest catastrophe of the twentieth century.”
Stalin blamed the ensuing
collapse
in food production on conspiracies by the dead and dying.
The Berlin Wall did not
collapse
under a barrage of NATO artillery, but under the impact of hammers and bulldozers wielded by people who had changed their minds about Soviet ideology.
In the case of Japan’s asset-price
collapse
in 1989, and again in the United States in 2008, bank recapitalization and central-bank liquidity support restored market confidence.
He must have calculated that the new president would have to ameliorate the consequences of Ahmadinejad’s foreign-policy freelancing and economic mismanagement, which has had as much to do with the
collapse
of the Iranian economy as US-led international sanctions.
One set of answers might seem apparent from the
collapse
of international trade negotiations and the unraveling international system to control the spread of nuclear weapons.
Beyond North Korea, the UN recently warned that the ongoing conflict in Yemen, which rarely makes headlines, is “rapidly pushing the country toward social, economic, and institutional collapse.”
If Yemen’s humanitarian catastrophe leads to a total collapse, millions of desperate people might flee the country, enabling AQAP and other extremist organizations to profit from disorder and despair.
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