Collapse
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But imagine this is all wrong and a
collapse
does occur?
The White House staff is said to be in a state of near
collapse
– bouncing from one presidential crisis to another, trying all the while to hide from a screaming president.
In the wake of the resulting
collapse
of export receipts and budget revenues, OPEC adopted a new approach, based on a modernized production agreement with two key features: greater flexibility for countries facing especially complex internal conditions (such as Libya) and the inclusion of non-OPEC producers, particularly Russia.
Since these claims would probably be lost should the euro collapse, the political pressure to give way finally to Eurobonds is becoming overwhelming.
In 1992, as the emerging Russian Federation teetered on the brink of economic and monetary collapse, he opted for radical reform, prompting a backlash from vested interest groups.
The economic orthodoxy pursued after the
collapse
of 1998 laid the groundwork for today’s sustained Russian boom.
Easing sanctions now, with so little progress having been made under the latest Minsk agreement, would amount to a catastrophic
collapse
in Europe’s impact and credibility – and a major loss for Ukraine.
As the
collapse
of communism in Eastern Europe demonstrates, repression alone is a poor guarantee of stability.
It would ignite an already incendiary part of the world, with the added risk of global economic
collapse
if the Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth to one-third of the world’s oil passes, is blocked.
I was also right to say that all but a tiny and unbalanced fringe of economists approve of central-bank guarantees of system stability, in order to prevent the risk of a
collapse
of the payments system from becoming a first-order consideration boosting the demand for cash to unnatural levels.
The disintegration of Assad’s iron rule into a bloody civil war shows once again that the disorderly
collapse
of dictatorships, such as Josip Broz Tito’s in Yugoslavia, or Hussein’s in Iraq, tends to foment inter-ethnic war and national dismemberment.
Though the country's whopping current-account deficit is gone, this reflects a
collapse
of imports – a result of austerity – rather than an export boom.
Poverty, psychological stress, and the
collapse
of health care have led to an anomalously high death rate, a mass decrease in health, and the wasting of colossal labor resources.
Will it follow the path of chaotic, violent regime
collapse
by which Nicolae Ceausescu lost power in Romania?
The financial
collapse
of 2007-2009 was the result of a massive mispricing of assets by private banks and ratings agencies.
For all of these reasons, the specter of a eurozone
collapse
has not been dispatched.
The consequences of a
collapse
would not be pretty.
Free trade in goods and free movement of capital and labor would not survive the euro’s collapse, these diehard Europhiles warn.
The cooperation needed to make that peer pressure effective might conceivably survive the euro’s
collapse.
The danger now is that the housing market will
collapse
– bringing China’s economic prospects down with it.
Indeed, though China’s government has expressed its willingness to sacrifice some growth in its pursuit of structural reform and rebalancing, the impact of a housing-market
collapse
on the financial sector would cause growth to slow beyond the acceptable limit.
Soon, the new Congress of People's Deputies, as well as the newly-formed parliaments of the Russian Federation and other USSR republics became political battlefields, unleashing processes that lead to the
collapse
of the Communist Party and the USSR.
Still, no one imagined that
collapse
of the entire system was fast approaching.
A small number of babies who
collapse
and die unexpectedly in their first year are found to have one or more of the following three symptoms in common: bleeding just outside the brain (subdural hemorrhage); bleeding at the back of the eye (retinal hemorrhage); and brain swelling.
It was suggested that these outcomes required a force equivalent to a multi-story fall or major motor-vehicle accident, causing immediate symptoms or
collapse.
Because violent shaking cannot be accidental, the hypothesis simultaneously established a criminal act and identified the perpetrator, typically the person with the baby at the time of
collapse.
Despite a huge investment of time and energy, he has failed to marshal even his own troops in support of a relatively modest proposal to stave off
collapse
of the nation’s old-age insurance program.
Some people ascribe the global
collapse
of reform efforts to a peculiarly ineffective collection of leaders.
Today’s world is one of fast-changing currents, where a region flourishes one day, and the next its factories
collapse
economically as if hit by hurricane Katrina.
In a globalized world, for example, citizens of nation-states might wonder (as many have) why a financial crisis a hemisphere away causes their countries’ banks to
collapse
abruptly.
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