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The Makings of a 2020 Recession and Financial CrisisNEW YORK – As we mark the decennial of the
collapse
of Lehman Brothers, there are still ongoing debates about the causes and consequences of the financial crisis, and whether the lessons needed to prepare for the next one have been absorbed.
Perhaps the best chance to address the problem at an earlier stage was immediately after the Soviet Union’s
collapse
in 1991.
Back then, Kim Il-sung – the North’s founder – faced economic collapse, diminution of his conventional military forces, and diplomatic isolation.
The new money simply replaces the old money, which has been liquidated by economic
collapse.
It returned as an animating and unifying force with the
collapse
of communism and the Balkan wars of a decade ago.
We are in the midst of a financial crisis caused by the serious mispricing of all kinds of risks and by the
collapse
of the housing bubble that developed in the first half of this decade.
The euro would collapse, and the ECB finished as a creditable central bank.
Will the economy
collapse
if the IMF withdraws its support?
This should help to solve the problem of insufficient demand for real estate, which could have led to the
collapse
of China’s economy.
Seeing the difficulty of the adjustment, they worried that sterling would
collapse.
Putin surely doesn’t want to be accused of repeating the disastrous Afghan War of 1979-1989, which helped to bring about the Soviet Union’s
collapse.
In Mexico in 1995, in East Asia in 1997-1998, and in Argentina in 2002, the
collapse
of currency values caused enormous distress: as exchange rates fell, the local-currency value of debts owed to foreigners and linked in value to the dollar soared, raising the danger of effective national bankruptcy.
But should the value of the dollar suddenly collapse, the US will follow a different course.
Fortunately, we managed to avoid economic collapse, thanks to support from the International Monetary Fund, while reducing the deficit by half.
Macro liquidity is feeding booms and bubbles; but market illiquidity will eventually trigger a bust and
collapse.
Cyprus is almost out of the euro, its banks’
collapse
having been delayed by the European Central Bank’s provision of Emergency Liquidity Assistance, while euroskeptic parties led by Beppe Grillo and Silvio Berlusconi garnered a combined total of 55% of the popular vote in the latest Italian general election.
The crisis in eastern Ukraine has been contained only partly by the Minsk II ceasefire agreement, and reflects the deepest rupture in the West’s relationship with Russia since the Soviet Union’s
collapse.
Markets had factored into share prices the belief that the US government would not allow any more banks to
collapse.
There are other Kremlin supporters as well, including corporate leaders who want to return to business as usual with Russia, and academic apologists for the Soviet Union who, 25 years after its collapse, see a chance for vindication.
The
collapse
of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the Russian Revolution in 1917 reshaped regional and global politics.
The “color wall” has fallen nearly 20 years after the
collapse
of the Wall that divided Germany and Europe.
The two misconceptions about the crisis have the unfortunate effect of preventing us from learning a key lesson: economic policy prior to Lehman Brothers’
collapse
should have been more aggressive.
Yet a critical moment in the crisis came when, shortly after the mid-September 2008
collapse
of Lehman Brothers, a money-market fund “broke the buck” and couldn’t pay 100 cents on the dollar.
But a series of events – the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, the assassinations of a presidential candidate and the incoming president’s chief aide, and the
collapse
of the currency – shook Mexico that year, underscoring the depth of the challenges it faced.
Poland’s economy, close to outright collapse, struggled to meet citizens’ basic needs, let alone repay foreign loans.
A new vision of the US-India relationship would focus on global warming, the
collapse
of industrial agriculture, the widening gap between rich and poor, the conventional and nuclear arms race in Asia, and the intensification of ethnic and religious conflict.
But the 1945 consensus was dealt a much greater blow precisely when we all rejoiced at the
collapse
of the Soviet Empire, the other great twentieth-century tyranny.
The extraordinary reception of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century shows how keenly the consequences of the
collapse
of the left have been felt.
Nearly a decade after communism’s collapse, Poland has no doubt achieved a quite liberal society.
Bank rescue programs on the order of €5 trillion and Keynesian stimulus programs on the order of a further €1 trillion staved off
collapse.
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