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The problem remains the real-estate market, whose
collapse
caused the crisis.
Nearly all (95%) of housing finance in 2009 had to go through the state agencies Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Ginnie Mae to prevent a complete
collapse
of the US economy.
The only other time it has happened in recent decades was in Russia after the
collapse
of communism, and in Africa after the outbreak of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
What makes this possibility the financial nightmare of choice, worse than the
collapse
of Lehman Brothers in 2008, is the fear that many sovereign states have already shot all their bullets and would thus be powerless to intervene.
Unfortunately, almost two years after Lehman’s collapse, little has been done to address this risk.
To minimize the risk of an unruly collapse, it is necessary to approve an international resolution mechanism with authority over all major international financial institutions.
Refusing international help in such instances would mean electoral suicide for any government that faces a major bank
collapse.
Today, the
collapse
in the price of crude oil is probably the most significant factor driving inflation below target, just as in 2011 it was the rise in oil prices that drove it above target.
Yet this support may be fragile, and could
collapse
if something goes wrong on the ground – or, worse, in France.
Based on my own experience as Argentina’s first democratically elected president after the
collapse
of its military junta, I know that this is a long, complex, and painful process.
Indeed, whenever nuclear assets have been least secure – during the Soviet Union’s collapse, China’s Cultural Revolution, and the Algiers putsch (when a group of mutinous retired generals set their sights on a nuclear device that France was testing in the Algerian desert) – they have not been compromised.
In the event of the regime’s
collapse
– a distinct possibility – it would be difficult to prevent the diversion of its assets, or even the use of its weapons.
In the oil market, the once-powerful OPEC cartel has stepped back from the role of swing producer on the downside – that is, cutting output in order to stop a disorderly price
collapse.
The drop in oil prices after the mid-1980’s is said to be due to the
collapse
of the OPEC oil cartel.
Wholesale disintegration of reef ecosystems has occurred in some places, and
collapse
on a worldwide scale is a real risk.
The catastrophic
collapse
of fish stocks around the world--on coral reefs and elsewhere--has provided hard lessons about managing fisheries.
More importantly, they provide a refuge for fish populations, a kind of insurance policy against stock
collapse.
Immediately after the
collapse
of the Soviet Union, Turkey proposed the Black Sea Economic Cooperation.
Although the major Italian banks were constructed on the same model as the German and Austrian banks whose
collapse
had ignited the global conflagration, and although the Italian banks were just as insolvent, the press never discussed these unpleasant problems.
LONDON – Europe’s emerging markets have this year experienced their worst output
collapse
since the great “transitional recession” that followed the end of communism.
Last year, Japan’s economy grew at a relatively healthy 3% annual rate, higher than in the United States or the European Union, owing mainly to the fiscal expansion undertaken after the
collapse
of Lehman Brothers in 2008.
Thus, 20 years after the
collapse
of the Soviet Union, Russia spends only half what Europeans do on defense – yet Europe still clings to the notion that its security depends on American protection.
If it fails to do so, the government will likely furnish it with public money to stave off a
collapse.
In Britain, by contrast, where the economy is strong and unemployment low, the main factor behind the
collapse
in the vote for the governing Labor Party has been anger with Tony Blair's determination to go to war in Iraq beside George Bush.
And the dissident Hassan Abbas has spoken publicly about the regime’s impending
collapse
(and, to be sure, the special abuse that he has faced for being Alawite).
In my view, those who think that America is about to
collapse
are likely to be disappointed.
It took less than 24 hours for Papandreou’s proposal to
collapse
under the pressure of financial markets (and European leaders’ fear of them).
On the US side then, dollar
collapse
in not a front page story.
It is in the hedge fund industry’s interest to encourage greater regulation and transparency, lest a rising tide of failed funds cause investor confidence to collapse, putting both good and bad wizards out of business.
And, indeed, it has: the shocking
collapse
this week of the Greek banking system.
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