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For the first time since the Soviet collapse, the Kremlin will have firm parliamentary support.
The North Koreans have violated their agreements, knowing that China, the country with the greatest potential leverage, is most concerned about regime
collapse
in North Korea, and thus the threat of chaos on its borders.
The Middle East, of course, has experienced the withdrawal of a great power, or powers, many times before: the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire after World War I; the fraying of the French and British imperial mandates after World War II; and, most recently, the nearly complete disappearance of Russian influence following the
collapse
of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Weakened by the
collapse
of the USSR, the economy was sent into a tailspin after successive floods and droughts in 1995, 1996 and 1997.
The
collapse
of Communism, I believe, was part of the overall exhaustion of socialist politics in both systems.
With communism’s
collapse
and Russia temporarily disabled, self-deterrence softened, and the US ran off the rails as the global hyperpower.
Unification needed very cool heads at a time when people in the street were grabbing for all the freedom they could, as if communism’s
collapse
was a foregone conclusion.
Argentina's LessonsArgentina's
collapse
incited the largest default in history.
Yet Argentina's debt to GDP ratio - even as it began to
collapse
- remained moderate, at around 45%, lower than Japan's.
(More broadly, the weight of China’s problems, together with Russia’s
collapse
and Venezuela’s 60% inflation, has strained the belief of some that state capitalism trumps market economies.)
Moreover, some banks in the defaulting countries would have to be kept functioning in order to prevent economic
collapse.
The euro exists, and the global financial system’s assets and liabilities are so intermingled on the basis of the common currency that its
collapse
would cause a meltdown beyond the capacity of the German authorities – or any other – to contain.
Either way, it is not in the European Union’s interest to allow these countries to
collapse
and drag down the entire global banking system with them.
And, unlike the Great Depression, this time the financial system was put on artificial life-support, rather than being allowed to
collapse.
This meant that governments had to effectively guarantee that no other institution whose
collapse
could endanger the system would be allowed to fail.
But the growing belief that the global financial system has escaped collapse, and that we are slowly returning to business as usual, is a grave misinterpretation of the current situation.
True, some economists expected the UK economy to
collapse
during the post-referendum panic, whereas economic activity proved to be rather resilient, with GDP growth reaching some 2.1% in 2016.
More to the point, Germany cannot indefinitely keep taxes low while offering generous social transfers to lower-skill workers; eventually, its welfare system would
collapse.
Thus, the state’s coffers (and hence spending) overflow during booms, but then collapse, forcing emergency retrenchment, during busts.
His objective is to diversify Cuba’s foreign relations and prevent problems that any change in these countries could cause his regime – a constant imperative since the
collapse
of the Soviet Union.
As we saw a decade ago, financial institutions operating in an environment of uncertainty can become fragile and collapse, imposing high costs on society.
After all, the link between financial integration and vulnerability was the main lesson of the crisis that followed the US investment bank Lehman Brothers’
collapse
in 2008.
The left would trigger a currency
collapse
and a run on French securities that would bring the euro crisis from Greece, Spain, or Italy to the heart of the European process, France’s relationship with Germany.
His case seems strengthened by the
collapse
of the Dutch government as a result of the populist Geert Wilders’ objection to German-imposed austerity, as well as by the strength of Le Pen’s support in France.
There is now a serious risk of a systemic meltdown in US financial markets as huge credit and asset bubbles
collapse.
In hindsight, these exchange-rate swings mirrored the initial
collapse
and subsequent rebound in global trade, helping to mitigate the recession.
As for currency collapse, the most prominent candidate has to be the euro.
Though the crisis may be over in the sense that outright
collapse
has been avoided, the economy remains vulnerable.
Yanukovych panders to xenophobes and anti-Semites, and his strongest appeal is to the core of angry diehards who detest the
collapse
of Soviet power.
In many Asian democracies, only institutional reconstruction will prevent
collapse.
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