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Even if the US – and, to some extent, Western Europe – does retain a competitive edge, it is unlikely to retain the kind of global geopolitical control that it has had since World War II and, especially, since the Soviet Union’s
collapse
left it as the world’s sole superpower.
Striking Euro Gold (and Silver)PRINCETON – The alternatives for Europe’s currency, the euro, seem increasingly limited to a desperate muddling through or a chaotic
collapse.
Through this partnership, the SDF brought ISIS to the brink of
collapse.
In its latest “World Economic Outlook,” the IMF examines the analogy explicitly, in terms not only of the
collapse
of financial confidence, but also of the rapid decline in global trade and industrial activity.
First, no one has ever been able to explain satisfactorily the October 1929 market
collapse
in terms of a rational cause, with market participants reacting to a specific news event.
But the
collapse
of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 was a 1931-like event, highly reminiscent of the world of depression economics.
For a long time, it was much easier to repeat the soothing mantra that the world community had collectively learned how to avoid a 1929-style collapse, and that the world’s central banks clearly showed this in 1987 or 2001.
In their hostility to Islam, they like to talk about defending “Enlightenment values,” whereas in fact they lament the
collapse
of faith, whether religious or secular.
Berlusconi's lack of experience in politics doomed his first government to
collapse
after only six months.
Despite the
collapse
in prices, from over $115 per barrel in June 2014 to $45 at the end of November 2015, most macroeconomic models suggest that the impact on global growth has been less than expected – perhaps 0.5% of global GDP.
It is also comparable to the demand-driven
collapse
in 2008-2009, following the global financial crisis.
Thanks to the shale-energy revolution, American oil production has risen from five million barrels per day in 2008 to 9.3 million barrels in 2015, a supply boom that has so far persisted, despite the price
collapse.
Only a couple – notably governance-challenged Venezuela – are in outright collapse; but many are teetering on the brink of recession.
Indeed, Russian President Vladimir Putin considers the Soviet Union’s
collapse
“the largest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century.”
After the Cold War’s end and the
collapse
of the Russian Empire’s Soviet successor, war returned to the Balkans under very similar conditions to those that prevailed in the period before 1914, with aggressive nationalism ultimately reconfiguring the disintegrating Yugoslavia as six separate states.
In a doom loop, the expectations of default drive up risk premia until the economy reaches the brink of collapse, even if the underlying problems could be managed over time.
The European Union seems on the brink of collapse, and many non-Europeans view the old continent as a retired power that can still impress the world with its good manners, but not with nerve or ambition.
Instead, many economies followed communism itself into
collapse.
Such uncertainty meant that markets often could not generate the new income needed to offset the
collapse
of production in state-owned enterprises.
In the wake of the death of the utopian - and often bloody - certainties of the 19th and 20th centuries (Communism's
collapse
was but the latest spectacular example), and with fading belief in the liberal welfare state, traditional views about work, retirement, education, the Church, solidarity, and other social institutions are changing rapidly.
But on the night of November 9th, when the wall and the barbed wire which had failed to irrevocably divide Germans over many decades of bitter separation began to crumble, communism's
collapse
became irreversible.
A mob of extreme leftists succeeded in drowning out the German hymn sung by people celebrating the Wall's approaching
collapse.
The astounding difficulty of everyday survival following the USSR’s
collapse
trapped most Russians into focusing on their families’ most urgent needs.
The result is a currency
collapse
and a wave of bankruptcies.
The
collapse
of the USSR and the Communist Party opened new horizons – and almost all archives – for historians.
BERKELEY – From the day after the
collapse
of Lehman Brothers last year, the policies followed by the United States Treasury, the US Federal Reserve, and the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama have been sound and helpful.
I am old enough to remember both the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, and the ascent and
collapse
of Nazism, of Fascism, and of Soviet Communism.
It has been receiving strong support from those supposedly well-versed in public finance, particularly since the economic
collapse
of 2008.
A North Korean Opportunity for America and ChinaNEW YORK – It is not obvious, but North Korea could be the best thing for the relationship between the United States and China since the
collapse
of the Soviet Union.
The answer, as former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker implied at the meeting, is that we would be right back where we started – in the panic and frozen credit markets that followed the
collapse
of Lehman Brothers in September 2008.
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