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When the global financial crisis hit, the house of cards collapsed.
In 1989 and 1990, as communism collapsed and glasnost took hold, many Russians hungrily sought the "facts."
How much longer can we ignore the fact that, in raising the bogeyman of “Chechen terrorism,” the Russian government is suppressing the liberties gained when the Soviet empire collapsed?
And the effort intended to save the world in Copenhagen in 2009 collapsed spectacularly.
But it is certainly true in many places that ideological differences have largely collapsed.
Japan clearly did not choose austerity after its banks collapsed in 1997.
Russia is no more able to compete with Western technology and capabilities today than the Soviet Union was when it collapsed under the stress of its arms race with the US.
No Licenses to KillNEW YORK – In the last year, we endured a remarkable experience; after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, financial markets actually collapsed and required artificial life support.
As the new state of South Sudan has gradually collapsed into starvation and chaos, more than 600,000 people have fled into Uganda alone.
Despite numerous difficulties, recovery from that earthquake was faster than expected: there was no tsunami to complicate matters, and rebuilding efforts could be focused on buildings that had collapsed in the earthquake.
In Malawi, for example, where nearly everyone farms for a living, a confidential study by the British government this year found that “the agricultural extension service has collapsed,” a victim of the same bureaucratic ineptitude and petty corruption that undermines public services throughout this poor country.
China and a New Balance of PowerSHANGHAI – The last rival superpower to the United States, the Soviet Union, collapsed in 1991.
After US investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, it did not take long for advanced-country central banks to recognize that conventional monetary policy would be inadequate to contain the fallout of the ensuing crisis.
What followed was a “lost decade” of economic depression, stagnant growth, and currency, debt, and banking crises, as Latin American countries’ output contracted or collapsed.
This is what chavismo has accomplished in Venezuela: having fired or exiled the engineers who ran the national oil company, oil output collapsed, bringing the entire Venezuelan economy crashing down.
On July 13, 1931, the German banking system collapsed, ensuring that what was previously an American economic downturn became the worldwide Great Depression.
Output collapsed and unemployment soared.
When the credit bubble collapsed in 2008, China's export markets suffered.
Moreover, any notion of party discipline and loyalty collapsed years ago, as the number of committed Conservative supporters dwindled.
As the fish stocks collapsed in 2005, 5,000 people decided to put their redundant fishing boats to a different use, by fleeing to the Spanish Canary Islands.
As for the people living in formerly Communist countries, they might have aspired to an open society when they suffered from repression, but now that the Communist system has collapsed, they are preoccupied with problems of survival.
Global Institutions after the CrisisOXFORD – When Lehman Brothers collapsed and the global financial crisis erupted five years ago, many glimpsed a silver lining: the promise of more effective global economic governance.
Your happiness is easily explained: Venezuelan imports, after having collapsed by 75% from 2012 to 2016, are down more than 20% in the first quarter of 2017.
The Global Financial System’s Weakened DefensesZURICH – Eighty-five years ago this month, Credit-Anstalt, by far the largest bank in Austria, collapsed.
By the time Credit-Anstalt collapsed, the world had been in deep recession for two years, banking systems in a number of countries had become fragile, and tensions were easily transmitted across national borders, with the gold standard exacerbating financial vulnerability by constraining central banks’ ability to act.
Risky projects are at a steep discount today, because the private-sector financial market’s risk tolerance has collapsed.
Indeed, the Communist vote collapsed to a mere 12.7%, down from 24% in 1999.
It is far more defensible and correct to argue that everyone – bankers, households, regulators, and politicians – contributed to (and took credit for) the boom while it lasted, only to point fingers at one another when it collapsed.
In many countries, their fiscal position has collapsed under the combined weight of mismanagement and the global economic and financial crisis.
Setting aside all of these specific drivers, we should hardly be surprised that China’s current-account surplus collapsed in the wake of the global financial crisis.
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