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Following the dot-com
collapse
of the early 2000’s, speculation in real estate and financial assets – enabled by cheap money – kept Western economies going.
Korea's Economy Remains a Prisoner of Korean PoliticsSEOUL: Despite World Bank emergency grants and IMF rescue funding of $57 billion, Korea's economy, the world's 11th largest, remains on the brink of
collapse.
What is behind the
collapse
in Sarkozy’s popularity?
In the worst-case scenario, Turkey’s economy will collapse, sending huge numbers of refugees – including Syrians and others currently in Turkey, as well as Turks themselves – to Western Europe.
One lesson is to avoid premature
collapse
of import-competing industries that employ substantial numbers of people before sufficient employment opportunities have emerged in more productive industries.
In the case of Ireland, €40 billion ($54 billion) in Emergency Liquidity Assistance loans from the European Central Bank were converted into long-term bonds at below-market interest rates after the
collapse
of the bank established to consolidate the failed Anglo Irish Bank’s non-performing loans.
Although the exposure of Chinese banks and financial institutions to eurozone sovereign and banking-sector assets is negligible, post-Grexit capital flight from risky markets could rival, or even surpass, that in the weeks following Lehman Brothers’
collapse
in September 2008.
In fact, China already experienced the impact of deleveraging late last year, when the European financial system seemed on the brink of
collapse.
Even if North Korea does not change its policy, total economic isolation may bring about an end to its nuclear program, by sowing internal discord and, ultimately, triggering the regime’s
collapse.
China worries that the
collapse
of the Kim regime would fuel a major refugee crisis, with millions of Koreans pouring across its border in search of food, shelter, and security – and imposing heavy economic and social costs on China in the process.
Persuading China to isolate the North economically will require the international community to establish some agreement regarding how regime
collapse
would be handled, with an eye to allaying China’s key concerns.
The IMF dithers - After Mexico’s collapse, talk about “crisis avoidance” and “enhanced surveillance” yielded only that, talk.
In 2014, the price of oil fell sharply, making the previous import level unsustainable and triggering a much deeper
collapse.
It was also clear by the end of 2015 that a major
collapse
was coming – and even that a famine was in the making.
But while the “how” of the Venezuelan
collapse
is clear and was predicted ex ante, the “why” question is harder to answer.
The 2018 summit of the leaders of the world’s largest economies is being held in Buenos Aires, a city still reeling from a currency
collapse.
Argentina endured economic
collapse
and four failed presidencies during the past three years.
Indeed, the precipitating factor in Bolivia's
collapse
was a plan to export natural gas to the US through archrival Chile, a country deeply resented since the War of the Pacific in the late 19 th century, which rendered Bolivia landlocked.
But we should be far more worried that fear about the
collapse
or manipulation of markets creates a demand for action that makes such a
collapse
more rather than less likely.
Hedge funds can also destabilize the system, as the
collapse
of Long Term Capital Management in 1998 demonstrated.
As the Soviet Union weakened, social unrest grew, culminating in the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall and the
collapse
of communism throughout Central and Eastern Europe.
Never mind the inevitable turmoil in global financial markets or the
collapse
of shale-oil production in the United States and what it implies for energy independence.
The
collapse
of communism in Europe, followed by that of the Soviet Union in 1991, was described triumphantly in Europe and the United States as the “end of history” – the global triumph of liberal democracy and free-market capitalism.
Above all, China wants to prevent the regime’s collapse, which it fears may result from stricter sanctions.
Through its delays the IMF incited both devaluation and default, with a resulting economic
collapse
far worse than if some preventive debt restructuring had been insisted upon.
Inevitably, the currency will
collapse
and the country's debt burdens and the situation of its banks and companies becomes even worse.
To work, restructuring must come early and needs to be drastic, otherwise a debt problem becomes a problem of default, bank
collapse
and currency
collapse.
In Indonesia the IMF failed to have an early debt moratorium and so fostered a currency
collapse.
So long as the bad debts claim center stage,
collapse
of domestic finance and of a nation's currency becomes extreme.
But the rise of China, the relative decline of the United States, the long boom in commodity prices, and the Western financial
collapse
of 2008 have created space for political and economic experiments.
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