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This was no US-led conspiracy, but the
collapse
of the Soviet Union was convenient for America.
Moreover, even before the oil-price collapse, crony capitalism had brought growth to a halt – and any serious effort to change the system would destabilize his power base.
Odinga has on several occasions stated that the power-sharing deal is at risk of
collapse.
The recent
collapse
of those bubbles caused sharp downturns in economic activity and substantial increases in unemployment in both countries.
But he was wrong to suggest that the EU is set to buckle and
collapse
under the weight of the multiple crises it faces.
The report, prompted by the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse, in which more than 1,100 people died and over 2,000 were injured, highlighted poor working conditions, inadequate building inspections, weak labor laws, and the need for fairer wage practices and legal benefits.
But if an economy-wide financial event triggers the simultaneous
collapse
of multiple financial firms, all bets are off.
Existing reforms do not adequately mitigate this risk, largely because they depend on the authorities and the banks to complete a complex and untested repayment process within 48 hours of a bank’s
collapse.
This expands the overnight market, makes mortgage lending easier, and increases the costs of
collapse.
The global financial crisis that the US housing-market crash triggered in 2008 carried important lessons about how fragile the financial system is in the face of a housing-market
collapse.
As the very different examples of the Soviet Union and China show, the Iranian regime might someday
collapse
or change fundamentally – probably when hardly anyone expects it.
The
collapse
of credit made matters worse; and firms, facing high borrowing costs and declining markets, responded quickly, cutting back inventories.
Indeed, Lebanon, following the
collapse
of Najib Mikati’s government, is already on the brink of civil war, as direct intervention in Syria by Hezbollah, Iran’s Lebanese proxy, to prevent Assad’s overthrow has exacerbated the country’s own longstanding sectarian tensions.
Soviet central planning could not secure a proper return on those loans - and indeed on all investment, which was a primary reason for the USSR’s
collapse.
The
collapse
of Russia’s GDP in dollar terms (from about $430 billion to less than $130 billion) as a result of 1998's ruble devaluation, however, left Russia unable to make even these reduced payments.
And the
collapse
the following month of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers, which unleashed a global financial crisis from which the world economy has yet to recover fully, underscored the advanced economies’ vulnerabilities, while largely sparing China.
The 2008-09 global financial crisis almost bankrupted governments and caused systemic
collapse.
As monetary tightening reveals the vulnerabilities in the real economy, the
collapse
of asset-price bubbles will trigger another economic crisis – one that could be even more severe than the last, because we have built up a tolerance to our strongest macroeconomic medications.
These policies are, in essence, the latest in a string of attempts by the ECB to address the fallout of the
collapse
of the massive bubble that formed in southern Europe in the early years of the euro.
Of course, when the financial crisis erupted in full force in 2008, following the
collapse
of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers, the ECB’s interventions were justified.
In Austria, property prices have risen by nearly half since the Lehman collapse; in Luxembourg, they have risen by almost one-third.
Nonetheless, this period ended with the financial crisis and another
collapse
in earnings and stock prices.
But Putin’s simulacrum of Sovietism began to
collapse
much faster, partly by virtue of the fact that his regime’s ideology never had much substance to begin with, and so couldn’t begin to be used as a prop.
To give the Arab Awakening countries the needed space to transform their economies alongside their political systems, while avoiding destabilization or collapse, the international community must scale up financial, policy, and institutional assistance.
Indeed, WWI destroyed not only lives, but also three empires in Europe – those of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia – and, with the
collapse
of Ottoman rule, a fourth on its fringe.
That role partly reflects the CCP’s birth in 1921 out of the violence and chaos that followed the
collapse
of the Qing Dynasty nine years earlier, as well as the three decades of civil war and Japanese colonization that intervened before the party took power in 1949.
The death toll in Everest’s worst-ever disaster was small compared, for example, to last year’s
collapse
of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which killed more than 1,100 workers.
For Chinese, such cultic movements have deep symbolic significance because of their association with the idea of dynastic decay and
collapse.
The US has invested much in shuttle diplomacy to bring Netanyahu and Abbas to the negotiating table and is not ready to see these talks
collapse.
If the talks collapse, US foreign policy in the Middle East would be further discredited, and nothing would remain to keep the parties from launching another round of conflict.
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