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From his perch at Oxford, where he became a fellow at All Souls College, he continued to tell inconvenient truths and remained an intellectual and moral presence in his country throughout its struggles against the oppressive regime, a series of workers’ uprisings, the rise of the Solidarity movement, and the final collapse of the regime in 1989.
It is no accident that the last commodity-price collapse, which ran from the late 1970s until 1992, coincided with more than a decade of sovereign-debt crises in the developing world.
On the contrary, it was the most severe commodity-price collapse to date, resulting in a 40% peak-to-trough decline.
The third wave, from 1989 to 1992, was fueled by the disintegration of the Soviet Union, which caused output there to collapse.
The collapse of China’s credit bubble would likely cause annual GDP growth to drop to 1-2%, on average, for the subsequent four years, assuming a 2% annual decline in capital expenditure and a still-respectable consumption-growth rate of 3-5%.
(Another case with similar consequences was Japan’s value-added tax increase in 1997, which precipitated a collapse of consumption).
Many conflicts took place between the latter and the rest, and the great empire’s colossal collapse left a bitter taste in the mouths of all.
A line must be drawn between a time of crisis, when emergency measures are needed to avert economic collapse, and normal circumstances, in which the full force of market mechanisms applies.
America’s economic success and the collapse of communism fed the narrative.
So it is not surprising that massive government deficits financed by explosive monetary growth have caused the currency to collapse, with multinationals writing down the value of their Venezuelan subsidiaries each time the official exchange rate is lowered.
Decision Time on VenezuelaMEXICO CITY – For the last 15 years, Venezuela has been mired in crisis, characterized by wasteful government spending, rampant corruption, growing authoritarianism, relentless human-rights violations, and now economic collapse.
If the country’s economic collapse – the consequence of incompetent governance and the sharp fall in oil prices – is not enough to spur them to choose a side, Obama’s extreme maneuver will be.
As the Austrian historian Walter Scheidel argues, inequality has historically been countered through war, revolution, state collapse, or natural disaster.
It was during Yitzhak Rabin’s government in the early 1990’s that Israel and Iran entered into open conflict, owing to the changing strategic environment after America’s victory in the first Gulf War and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Nitroglycerine addresses the risk of circulatory collapse.
Moreover, a formative experience for many central bankers over the past half-decade has been the need to prevent a potential collapse of output, including by preventing prices from falling.
But building institutions takes time, which is in dangerously short supply, given the risk of bank runs, sovereign-debt crises, and the collapse of the single currency.
But the subsequent collapse of the peso’s dollar peg, and the forced conversion of dollar contracts into peso contracts at a non-market exchange rate, caused inflation to soar.
China finds itself in a delicate position, pulled in one direction by its desire to avoid a precipitous North Korean collapse, and in the opposite direction by its overriding need to deepen economic relations with the US, Japan, and South Korea.
The collapse of the USSR, President Vladimir Putin has proclaimed, was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century.
In the most recent wave, following the collapse of communism, 2 billion people joined the competition.
For some Europeans, still nervous that their economies and banking systems might collapse, this is a little like asking a passenger on the Titanic what they plan to do when they arrive in New York.
The Irish banking system approached total collapse in September 2008, and was only saved by a €400 billion government guarantee of all bank deposits.
The European Central Bank has provided a monetary lifeline that has provided much needed liquidity within the financial system and helped the government to stem the crisis of confidence created by the banking collapse.
Industrial market economies have been suffering from periodic financial crises, followed by high unemployment, at least since the Panic of 1825 nearly caused the Bank of England to collapse.
The collapse from 2007 to 2009 of equity, credit, and housing bubbles in the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland, Iceland, and Dubai led to severe financial crises and economic damage.
Is the collapse of the American dream at hand?
Secondly, the Pope recognized the most important problem of Poland and many other young democracies -- the collapse, in the face of material prosperity, of the sense of community.
As Yegor Gaidar, Russia’s first post-Soviet prime minister, has convincingly shown in his compelling book Collapse of an Empire, it was the fall in oil prices that determined the timing of the collapse.
In the aftermath of the collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa, this is the question on everybody’s mind.
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