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After the
collapse
of Lehman Brothers in 2008, oil prices plummeted in anticipation of economic stagnation, only to recover substantially as vigorous growth continued in emerging markets.
The Industrial Revolution turned steel and coal into strategic goods, and struggles over oil dominated much of the twentieth century, including during World War I, when the loss of Romanian petroleum contributed to the German
collapse
on the Western Front in 1918.
A Jerusalem controlled by non-productive Orthodox Jewish communities and disenfranchised Palestinians is destined for economic and political
collapse.
The term “too big to fail” dates back several decades, but it entered wide usage in the aftermath of the
collapse
of Lehman Brothers in September 2008.
Most fundamentally, can the scope of economic disaster witnessed following the Soviet Union's
collapse
be avoided?
The liberal world order appeared to be more robust than ever with the end of the Cold War and the
collapse
of the Soviet Union.
After the empire’s
collapse
in 1918, the rise of Arab nationalism placed Arabic language and culture at the center of political identity, thereby disenfranchising many non-Arab ethnic groups, including Kurds, Jews, and Syriacs.
Many of the authoritarian regimes now under threat of
collapse
cultivated the support of minorities.
But, from the perspective of their group interests, these inter-vivos transfers represent a concession aimed at preserving from
collapse
a system that is skewed in their favor.
The root of the crisis remains the fall in purchasing power on the part of the middle and lower classes, and the
collapse
of speculative bubbles created by the wealthy classes’ greed for more.
But if the Fed refuses to accommodate inflation produced by a dollar
collapse
and accepts a depression in the belief that the long-run benefits of maintaining its credibility as a guarantor of price stability will come before we are all dead, American equities will suffer.
Today the old KGB (Prime Minister Evgeny Primakov was a career denizen of this central institution of the Soviet/Stalinist state, and headed its successor body after communism's collapse) has been given the ruling hand in a last bid to impose some sort of order.
He pointed to how the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990’s caused the region’s voracious investment demand to collapse, while simultaneously inducing Asian governments to stockpile liquid assets as a hedge against another crisis.
Health systems could disintegrate or collapse, as could economies.
NATO, the SequelBRUSSELS – The Arab Spring entered a new phase with the
collapse
of the Qaddafi regime, but it is still far too soon to pronounce North Africa stabilized.
In research funded by the European Union, they studied what the global economic impact would be if global warming were to result in a
collapse
of the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
The Skills DeficitBRUSSELS – Two years after the world economy suffered a nervous breakdown in the wake of the
collapse
of Lehman Brothers, global financial markets remain unsettled, and the recovery that started so vigorously in 2009 seems to be stalling.
As we have witnessed in recent years, such interventions can be the difference between financial chaos and
collapse
and mere retrenchment and recession.
One reason may be the perception that many economists were smugly promoting the “efficient markets hypothesis” – a view that seemed to rule out a
collapse
in asset prices.
With the
collapse
of the planned economy in 1991, Russia proved to be not so much a developed as a misdeveloped country, unable to sell most of its products in non-captive markets.
Taking France out of the eurozone, as Le Pen has promised, would lead to the
collapse
of the euro itself.
On the contrary, a period of low and stable interest rates may even foster financial fragility, leading to a “Minsky moment,” when asset values suddenly collapse, bringing down the whole system.
The markets issued an ultimatum to Europe: either embrace more economic and financial integration on a federal basis, or face the
collapse
of the euro and thus the EU, including the Common Market.
Still, the single currency’s
collapse
was avoided, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy was right to laud the establishment of a “European Monetary Fund” as a real achievement.
Many leaders of Italy’s political center were charged with corruption; the left lost its appeal after the
collapse
of the Soviet Union; and the right never regained trust due to the fascist legacy.
Budget cuts reduced demand and output, which caused revenue to collapse, making additional budget cuts inevitable.
The Limits to PanicCOPENHAGEN – We often hear how the world as we know it will end, usually through ecological
collapse.
The Limits to Growth warned humanity in 1972 that devastating
collapse
was just around the corner.
As for economic collapse, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that global GDP per capita will increase 14-fold over this century and 24-fold in the developing world.
The crisis in Cyprus – which threatens to cause the country’s banking system to
collapse
and force Cyprus out of the eurozone – could make the situation even more difficult to manage.
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