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Russia is at a cross roads, the next stop is normality or
collapse.
Emerging Vulnerabilities in Emerging EconomiesMILAN – Just before the
collapse
of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers triggered a financial crisis that would engulf the world economy, the Commission on Growth and Development published an assessment of emerging-economy growth strategies, aimed at drawing lessons from previous research and experience.
Moreover, European countries today are prepared to go to great lengths to save the euro, fearing that its
collapse
would jeopardize their single market.
This could lead to a
collapse
in confidence, triggering financial upheaval and, in turn, forcing the country to seek a third bailout – one that would require Greece to leave the eurozone and introduce a new, devalued currency.
And, because eurozone banks hold a substantial part of their assets in the form of eurozone sovereign bonds, the sovereign-debt crisis became a potential banking crisis, worsened by banks’ other losses, owing, for example, to the
collapse
of housing prices in Spain.
As British economist Charles Goodhart explained in the 1980s, “any observed statistical regularity will tend to
collapse
once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.”
In 1994, three years after the Soviet Union’s collapse, reconstruction of the cathedral began.
This two-step process would be similar to what happened in 2008, when Congress was confronted with another cliffhanger: the Bush administration’s request for $700 billion to prevent a financial-market
collapse
and an economic depression.
Modern central banking got its start in the
collapse
of the British canal boom of the early 1820’s.
The fact is that Putin’s Russia and the EU are engaged in a race against time: The question is which one will
collapse
first.
The most effective way that Putin’s regime can avoid
collapse
is by causing the EU to
collapse
sooner.
Last August, Russia experienced financial collapse, defaulting on treasury bills as its stock market plunged 94% from its October 1997 peak.
My engagement accelerated with the
collapse
of the Soviet system and I have set up a network of foundations that extends across twenty-five countries.
After the
collapse
of communism, the mission of the foundation network changed.
The
collapse
of communism laid the groundwork for a universal open society, but Western democracies did not rise to the occasion.
It is enough to consider the effects of the free world's failure to extend a helping hand to Russia after the
collapse
of communism.
The lesson from Russia is that the
collapse
of a repressive regime does not automatically lead to the establishment of a secure open society.
At the time of the Soviet
collapse
there was an opportunity to make the UN function as it was originally designed to.
That was in 1991, when the Soviet Union’s
collapse
had left the US as the world’s only superpower.
The
collapse
of the Soviet Union was the right time to establish diplomatic relations with Armenia.
If the US is serious about “fair” trade, they say, the new administration will need, for example, to deal with the unfairness of agricultural subsidies, which led to the
collapse
of the Doha round of World Trade Organization talks.
When US officials say to the Europeans, “We need you,” what they mean is quite minimal: “Please do not
collapse
and bring down the global economy with you.”
The parallels to the 2008
collapse
of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers are strong – and crucial for understanding today’s financial risks.
For starters, neither the
collapse
of Credit-Anstalt nor that of Lehman Brothers caused all of the global financial tumult that ensued.
Could a crisis like those triggered by the Credit-Anstalt and the Lehman Brothers
collapse
happen today?
But, in the event of a crisis, the tools available to central banks to prevent deflation and a
collapse
of the real economy are severely constrained, especially today.
Though none of the governments implicated in the scandals will
collapse
– at least not exclusively because of corruption – the sheer scale of the social and political protest, not to mention legal action, is astonishing.
I certainly had no excuse to be caught unawares: soon after the 2008 crisis, I wrote a book suggesting that a
collapse
of confidence in political institutions would follow the economic collapse, with a lag of five years or so.
In a forthcoming book, they argue that the
collapse
of advanced-country growth is not merely a result of the financial crisis; at its root, they argue, these countries’ weakness reflects secular stagnation in technology and innovation.
But as crippling nuclear-related sanctions in recent years brought the Iranian economy to the verge of collapse, Iran’s conservatives were forced to negotiate in good faith with the international community.
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