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In a panic, acting President Dioncounda Traoré, a colonel from the south, called upon the French authorities to enforce a bilateral defense agreement, though he had contributed to the coup that drove the legally elected former president, Amadou Toumani Touré, into exile, causing the state to
collapse
and straining relations with France.
After all, victory in the Cold War was aided substantially by Mikhail Gorbachev, whose effort to reform the Soviet Union hastened its
collapse.
Still, it is right to ask if the American way of life will survive the twenty-first century, and, if it does, whether it will survive in America or migrate elsewhere as the US economy and political system
collapse
under the accumulated weight of decades of myopic national leadership and squandered opportunities.
Neither Conspiracy Nor Benevolence: The Miracle OfWARSAW: Ten years ago this month the first partially free elections in any Communist country were held in Poland: a crucial step on the road that began with the rise of Solidarity in 1980 and ended with the fall of the Wall in Berlin and the ultimate
collapse
of the Soviet system.
Berlin, Birthplace of Modern AsiaNEW DELHI – By marking the Cold War’s end and the looming
collapse
of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago transformed global geopolitics.
For Asia, the most important consequence of the fall of the Berlin Wall was that the
collapse
of communism produced a shift from the primacy of military power to economic power in shaping the international order.
The Soviet Union’s sudden
collapse
was a strategic boon to Asia, eliminating a menacing empire and opening the way for China rapidly to pursue its interests globally.
The result, they argued, would be runaway inflation (if not hyperinflation), a sharp rise in long-term interest rates, a
collapse
in the value of the US dollar, a spike in the price of gold and other commodities, and the replacement of debased fiat currencies with cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.
Financial Re-Regulation and DemocracyNEW YORK – It has taken almost two years since the
collapse
of Lehman Brothers, and more than three years since the beginning of the global recession brought on by the financial sector’s misdeeds for the United States and Europe finally to reform financial regulation.
Among other things, this unprecedented skewing of priorities led to a
collapse
in oil production, because the national oil company PDVSA failed to maintain its productive infrastructure and defaulted on payments to key contractors in order to pay its bondholders – thereby killing the goose that laid the golden eggs.
First, a floor must be put under the international financial system in order to stop its
collapse.
Completing the G-20’s AgendaNEW YORK – The near-complete
collapse
of financial systems worldwide has exposed fundamental weaknesses in their architecture and in how they are regulated.
In the wake of Argentina's full-scale
collapse
and the slowing of economic growth across the region, debates about economic policy have intensified.
Sclerotic companies were put on life-support credit lines by their zaibatsu – like banking partners – delaying their inevitable failure and perpetuating inefficiencies and disincentives that resulted in a post-bubble
collapse
in Japanese productivity growth.
Above all, however, the permanent public provision of cheap credit would ultimately lead to a lingering infirmity, if not to Europe’s economic collapse, because the eurozone would become a central management system with state control over investment.
The Eurozone’s Calm Before the StormNEW YORK – A little more than a year ago, in the summer of 2012, the eurozone, faced with growing fears of a Greek exit and unsustainably high borrowing costs for Italy and Spain, appeared to be on the brink of
collapse.
The severe recession in the periphery has caused imports there to collapse, but lower unit labor costs have not boosted exports enough.
Last Man StandingLONDON – Much of modern geopolitics seems to be following the plot from Game of Thrones, with many countries under so much political and economic stress that their only hope is that their rivals
collapse
before they do.
Putin, in turn, is hoping that Russia’s economy stays afloat long enough for Ukraine to
collapse.
Predicting the
collapse
of the House of Saud has become a mainstay of Middle East commentary.
If Asia enters a downward spiral of economic
collapse
and financial default, the consequences will be severe not only for the billions of people of Asia but for the rest of the world as well.
As the investors flee, and the Asian currencies crumble, the banking systems of Asia are put against the brink of
collapse.
The banks then stop lending funds, and the economies
collapse
further.
The Japanese Government, as the largest economy and major creditor in the region, can play a leadership role in fostering confidence and providing credit to the region so that the current panic does not turn into a
collapse
of economic activity.
Human institutions, like human beings, can
collapse
with surprising speed once they have outlived their usefulness.
One is the trajectory of commodity export prices, which increased through the late 1930s and 1940s, following the Depression-era
collapse.
Both Hamas and Hezbollah are bound to conclude from Israel’s emotional
collapse
at the fate of one young soldier that its helplessness in dealing with psychological and sentimental dilemmas opens the way to its eventual strategic defeat.
This assortment of “Austrian” economists, radical monetarists, gold bugs, and Bitcoin fanatics has repeatedly warned that such a massive increase in global liquidity would lead to hyperinflation, the US dollar’s collapse, sky-high gold prices, and the eventual demise of fiat currencies at the hands of digital krypto-currency counterparts.
And bubbles in other markets (for example, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada, Switzerland, France, Sweden, Norway, Australia, New Zealand) pose a new risk, as their
collapse
would drag down home prices.
But no, don’t wait for
collapse
– not in stocks, not in confidence, not in credit.
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