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Although the opposition has long vowed to cut off aid, the last thing that the United States wants to see today is a Cuban collapse, as immigration from the island has already doubled in the last year.
The mobilization of Shia militias means that the nightmare scenario, the fall of Baghdad, is unlikely, despite the virtual
collapse
of the Iraqi army.
So how does this explain the overexposure of many institutions to sub-prime mortgage risk and the
collapse
of the interbank market?
A probable cause of the
collapse
of the interbank market is precisely informational failure.
Stolypin never got the chance – a revolutionary assassinated him in 1911 – and neither did Russia, which stumbled into World War I, leading directly to the
collapse
of the monarchy and the Bolshevik revolution.
Climate campaigners changed their approach after the
collapse
of the Copenhagen climate-change summit last December and the revelation of mistakes in the United Nations climate panel’s work – as well as in response to growing public skepticism and declining interest.
The end result can be
collapse
into a kind of anarchy, as in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Somalia.
Can Europe, Latin America, and the US go it alone, cultivate market forces and the free flow of goods and capital with Asia in a tailspin incited by a Japanese
collapse?
Few Russian policymakers, much less the Russian public, expected oil and gas prices to
collapse
as they have.
Even those countries that are not actively engaged in a fiscal orgy are seeing their surpluses
collapse
and their deficits soar, mainly in the face of falling tax revenues.
But few emerging markets have reached a stage at which they can withstand a sustained
collapse
in the developed economies, much less serve as substitute engines of global growth.
Europe’s Dying Bank ModelLONDON – The good news for Europe is that it will not reenact the dramatic
collapse
of Lehman Brothers.
Though GDP should never be taken as an accurate representation of a country’s economic health, in Egypt, the figures do reflect the
collapse
of the country’s entire productive capacity in the years following the fall of Hosni Mubarak’s regime in 2011.
International trade would collapse, and major global companies would struggle to sell their products.
And, despite catastrophic natural disasters, nuclear saber-rattling on the Korean Peninsula, escalating power politics between oil producers in the Middle East, worries about Chinese debt, and the slow-motion
collapse
of Venezuela, the global economic recovery continued to gain steam.
In the race between Russia and the EU to see which will
collapse
first, the EU has just lapped Russia and is inching toward the finish line.
I first noticed the effects of drug policy on women when I traveled to Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan after the
collapse
of the Soviet Union.
The resulting
collapse
in the dollar value of the currencies of the four East Asian countries is an oft-told tale that has been experienced not only by small and less developed countries but also by large and highly developed ones.
That means a country where government institutions quietly do their work, presidents neither threaten citizens nor give three-hour speeches that television stations are forced to carry, people can walk down the street without fear, and the economy is not perennially teetering on the brink of financial
collapse.
MELBOURNE – With daily headlines focusing on war, terrorism, and the abuses of repressive governments, and religious leaders frequently bemoaning declining standards of public and private behavior, it is easy to get the impression that we are witnessing a moral
collapse.
And, because he wants to portray CEU as “un-Hungarian,” he usually neglects to mention that he himself received a Soros-funded scholarship to study at Oxford soon after the
collapse
of Hungary’s communist regime.
And, while the risk of a disorderly Greek
collapse
is now receding, it will re-emerge this year as political instability, civil unrest, and more fiscal austerity turn the Greek recession into a depression.
Sweden is not the first welfare state to
collapse
of its generousity.
Draghi is well aware of the enormous sums that were lost during the 1970’s and 1980’s, after the
collapse
of the Bretton Woods system, in futile and costly interventions to stabilize exchange rates, and he does not want to jeopardize the ECB’s goal of maintaining price stability.
Indeed, perhaps the most important lesson learned in the aftermath of the
collapse
of Lehman Brothers is that we can no longer afford to examine problems in terms of individual institutions and from regulatory “silos.”
But the ECB’s policies also mean that it has no ammunition left to fight the next recession, which could be caused by a
collapse
of asset prices, starting with the price of long-term bonds.
Russia is already challenging the US and the EU in Ukraine, Syria, the Baltics, and the Balkans, and it may capitalize on the EU’s looming
collapse
by reasserting its influence in the former Soviet bloc countries, and supporting pro-Russia movements within Europe.
The 2008 recession was triggered by a financial crisis that erupted after the
collapse
of a credit-fueled asset bubble decimated the housing market.
Most important, however, has been what looks, from today’s perspective, like a permanent
collapse
in the risk-bearing capacity of the private marketplace, and a permanent and large increase in the perceived riskiness of financial assets worldwide – and of the businesses whose cash flows underpin them.
For example, if the US hadn’t provided essentially unconditional support to Citigroup in 2008 (under President George W. Bush) and again in 2009 (under President Barack Obama), the resulting financial
collapse
would have deepened the global recession and worsened job losses around the world.
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