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Exports have collapsed throughout Asia, including Korea, Japan, and Singapore.
Returns have since collapsed.
The stock market collapsed, moderate inflation turned into mild deflation, many bank loans became uncollectible and economic growth evaporated.
Once oil and soybean prices collapsed, according to this view, no anti-democratic antics short of suspending elections (which was intensely rumored in Venezuela) could save the populists from defeat.
Since the World Cup ended in July, economic activity has plummeted, inflationary pressures have intensified, and consumer and business confidence have collapsed, leading many economists to slash their growth forecasts for this year.
In Libya, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s appalling tyranny has collapsed; the EU will be generous in helping the Libyan people start to build a modern pluralist society.
Crisis emerged when world prices of agricultural produce collapsed and surpluses from agriculture could no longer support an inefficient manufacturing industry and growing welfare state.
Learning from LehmanHONG KONG – When the US investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed five years ago, emerging-market economies did not hold many of the toxic financial assets – mainly American subprime mortgages – that fueled the subsequent global financial crisis.
Some terrorist organizations have, of course, collapsed following the death of their charismatic leader.
In July, following the referendum, consumer confidence collapsed at its most rapid rate since 1990.
After Hitler’s Reich collapsed, not least owing to the sacrifices of the Red Army, Stalin had carte blanche to extend Soviet power deep into the heart of Europe.
True enough, as the Soviet Union collapsed, the satellite states hastened its demise by reasserting their sovereignty; in short order, almost every non-Russian republic in the former USSR demanded, and secured, independence.
After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Russian President Boris Yeltsin apparently forgot to claim it back, so Ukraine kept a territory in which nearly 60% of the two million inhabitants identify as Russians.
Twice in the twentieth century, the omnipotent Russian state was dramatically weakened: at the beginning, when the Russian Empire collapsed, and at the end, when the USSR ceased to exist.
The International Monetary Fund predicted that US banks would lose hundreds of billions of dollars by the summer of 2008, well before Lehman collapsed.
For example, if the US imposed an across-the-board import tariff of 25% on steel products, and imports collapsed to $15 billion – one-half of their 2017 value – the US would still acquire an extra $3.75 billion in annual revenues.
But much else collapsed with the Soviet model.
And the new post-war system provided the foundation for capitalism’s finest hour – until America lost its surplus and White’s arrangement collapsed.
Many intensively regulated fisheries have collapsed along with the unregulated ones.
If Americans’ appetite for Chinese exports suddenly collapsed because of a financial panic in the United States, China would find itself in serious economic trouble.
With the earlier pillars having collapsed, the emergence of a new one would bring about a situation where an increasingly integrated majority would be negotiating with a minority, thus perpetuating its isolation in the process.
Americans are from Italy, Europeans are from JapanMUNICH – The American business model has collapsed.
As the flow of funds from the world to US homeowners was disrupted, house prices collapsed by 30%, and construction of new homes by more than 70%.
In Egypt, the old regime under Hosni Mubarak, having failed to democratize, collapsed in the face of massive protest.
True, even as exports have collapsed, the government has managed to prop up growth with a huge spending and credit expansion.
And then they collapsed.
And then they collapsed, causing enormous damage to the government’s own solvency.
A Global New DealNEW YORK – Recent political developments, including the defeat of incumbent governments in France and Greece, suggest that the public’s tolerance for economic policies that do not reduce unemployment has collapsed.
After a run of growth, Brazil’s economy collapsed under Lula’s successor, former President Dilma Rousseff, whose “new economic matrix” entailed disruptive, interventionist, and protectionist policies.
Chile was hit hard by the 2008-2009 financial crisis: foreign loans vanished and the price of copper, Chile’s main export, collapsed.
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