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For the past two decades, as part of the soul-searching triggered by the
collapse
of communism, the World Bank has been seeking to make governance and anti-corruption efforts integral to its work on economic growth and poverty reduction in the developing world.
Real estate investment is growing again, following its
collapse
in 2015.
But there is a study much more useful than Gibbon’s analysis of Rome for understanding what happened to France’s team: Marc Bloch’s masterful examination of France’s
collapse
in 1940, A Strange Defeat.
As for the price-stability mandate, the oil-price
collapse
has naturally affected headline figures over the past year, but the trend in core inflation (excluding the energy component) suggests that the Fed is falling behind the curve.
Immediate resumption of these talks will lead to profound Palestinian despair, much deeper than the disillusion that followed the
collapse
of the Camp David summit in July 2000.
A New Peace ParadigmTEL AVIV – The
collapse
of yet another attempt by the United States to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement should do more than provoke finger-pointing.
The best that can be said for monetary policy over the last few years is that it prevented the direst outcomes that could have followed Lehman Brothers’
collapse.
After the
collapse
of the Soviet Union, some analysts described the resulting world as unipolar and saw few constraints on American power.
And the
collapse
of oil prices by more than 60% since July 2014 has undermined the growth prospects of oil exporters.
Putin’s preferred outcome in Ukraine is to engineer a financial and political
collapse
that destabilizes the country, and for which he can disclaim responsibility, rather than a military victory that leaves him in possession of – and responsible for – part of Ukraine.
The financial
collapse
of which I had been warning for months occurred in February, when the hryvnia’s value plummeted 50% in a few days, and the National Bank of Ukraine had to inject large amounts of money to rescue the banking system.
This temporary
collapse
has shaken public confidence and endangered the balance sheets of Ukrainian banks and companies that have hard-currency debts.
Ukraine does not collapse, but the oligarchs reassert themselves and the new Ukraine begins to resemble the old Ukraine.
Putin would find this almost as satisfactory as a complete
collapse.
This was crisis-driven carnage, highlighted by a 4.5% annualized
collapse
in the final two quarters of 2008.
The worst consumer recession in modern history, featuring a record
collapse
in durable-goods expenditures in 2008-2009, should have triggered an outsize surge of pent-up demand.
If the US puts everything else back on the table all at once, the deal will
collapse.
In 2011, after both prices had recovered from the
collapse
induced by the 2008 credit crisis, the five-year price started to come down gradually, while the spot price continued to surge for a while.
The Russian economy is far too dependent on oil and other natural resources, and the legitimacy of China’s one-party system could
collapse
quickly in an economic crisis.
But, a decade after communism’s collapse, it is Russia’s churchmen, not its politicians, who are blocking the way.
For the past three and a half decades, the principal shocks have not been inflationary, like the 1973 and 1979 oil crises, but rather deflationary, like the US savings and loan crisis in the 1980s and 1990s, the 1997 Asian crisis, the 2000 dot-com bust, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the 2007 subprime
collapse
that began in the US, and the 2010 European debt crash.
The EU will soon collapse, he predicted, with a succession of countries following the United Kingdom out.
But within the US, the greatest risk is a sharp decline in asset prices, which would squeeze households and firms, leading to a
collapse
of aggregate demand.
It is possible that asset prices will come down gradually, implying a slowdown rather than a
collapse
of spending and economic activity.
The war not only caused millions of deaths; it also left a legacy of revolution, state bankruptcy, protectionism, and financial
collapse
that set the stage for Hitler’s rise, World War II, and the Cold War.
The former Russian Empire is in growing turmoil as well, a kind of delayed reaction to the
collapse
of the Soviet Union in 1991, with Russia attacking Ukraine and violence continuing to erupt in Georgia, Moldova, and elsewhere.
The Roma suffered disproportionately after the
collapse
of communism in 1989, as they worked largely in unskilled industrial jobs that were the first to be cut.
The eurozone will not
collapse
this year, but its troubles are far from over.
Germans thinking about the likelihood of transfers to southern Europe doubtless recall their country’s reunification after the
collapse
of communist East Germany in 1989-1990.
If Merkel’s government believes that paying lip service to growth is enough, it is playing with fire: a euro
collapse
in which not only Germans would be badly burned.
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