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But, despite visible progress on the export front and noticeable labor-cost reductions, this rebalancing is mostly the result of the same
collapse
in domestic demand that is driving mass unemployment.
Ironically, that policy response helped to fuel the credit and housing bubble, whose
collapse
has triggered the current recession, which may actually bring about deflation.
Opening Nato eastward has been a matter of dispute since the USSR's
collapse.
As countries’ populations age and their fertility rates collapse, more migration will be necessary to ensure economic competitiveness and finance pension and health-care systems.
It was the late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping’s steely nerves and the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army – dispatched to enforce martial law and suppress the protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square – that enabled the regime, at the cost of several hundred civilian lives, to avoid
collapse.
After all, foreign investors are putting their money in the country because they expect to be able to take even more money out in the future; when this occurs, growth tends to slow, if not collapse, as happened in Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Ireland.
Heedless of its responsibilities as an emergency lender, it had allowed the banking system to
collapse.
Finally, long-term mismanagement and international sanctions have pushed the North Korean economy to the brink of
collapse.
I am sure that Germany does not want to be responsible for the
collapse
of the European Union.
If they were, the West would need only to wait for its adversaries to
collapse
under the weight of their own contradictions: Russia’s overestimation of its means, and, in the case of the Islamic State, the consequences of its appallingly cruel behavior.
A fall in the Thai housing market can cause the Thai baht to
collapse
in ways that could not have happened before; a fall in the Indian rupee can cause a meltdown of the Indian stock market in ways inconceivable ten years ago.
That loss is compounded by the
collapse
of the Party’s credibility among ordinary people.
Market professionals have been betting since early 1995 that share prices in America and Europe would collapse, while Asia would begin another bull market run.
And Spain clearly has to grapple with its own Irish problem, namely a huge housing over-hang – and probably large losses in the banking sector – following the
collapse
of an outsized real-estate bubble.
What made this
collapse
so remarkable is that it was not caused by some external factor, but originated within the financial system itself and spread from there throughout the global economy.
Regulators, by contrast, cannot ignore these imbalances, because if too many participants are on the same side, positions cannot be liquidated without causing a discontinuity or, worse, financial
collapse.
Thus, there is systemic market risk, and unregulated securitization of banking assets, which was the main cause of the recent collapse, adds to it.
The economy is depressed and unemployment is high not because of slack aggregate demand generated by a
collapse
in spending, but instead because “structural” factors have produced a mismatch between the skills of the labor force and the distribution of demand.
What we have witnessed is not a shift in demand into sectors lacking an adequate number of qualified and productive workers, but rather a
collapse
in the level of aggregate demand.
Otherwise, the eurozone banking system will
collapse.
Citizens would be excused for concluding that the 2008 global financial crisis had nothing to do with a global banking
collapse
and was entirely caused by a few spendthrift national governments racking up deficits.
Here it is no longer good enough for us pro-Europeans to claim that only atavistic Little Englanders make the case for leaving, or to pretend that, outside the EU, Britain would
collapse
or disintegrate.
Following the Soviet Union’s
collapse
in the 1990’s, those conflicts began to “unfreeze.”
Most threatening, however, is the possibility that the EU could collapse, triggering a third unfreezing.
To be sure, Europe and the US made mistakes in the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s
collapse.
In 2013, the talk has changed to the danger of a resurgent housing bubble and the
collapse
of the shadow banking system, which consists mainly of wealth-management firms and trust companies.
Add to that the American financial sector’s untenable subprime and securitization activities, and it is not surprising that the next two years brought the global financial system to the brink of outright
collapse.
And yet there can be no denying that the relationship with Russia is now broken, with mutual trust having reached its lowest point since the
collapse
of the Soviet Union.
But the
collapse
of the Soviet Union meant that there was no negotiated settlement of this new order.
We Russians obviously bear the most responsibility for the USSR's collapse, but America should also be called to account.
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