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This reminds Castro of the economic dislocations that led the Soviet Union to slash its aid to Cuba in the years before it collapsed.
Emerging markets’ currencies also collapsed, even in economies with huge foreign-exchange reserves and relatively little debt.
For the preceding quarter-century, Indians had watched helplessly as their attempts at peace-making with their belligerent, military-dominated neighbor had collapsed repeatedly, thanks to terrorist attacks from Pakistan that the government in Islamabad seemed unable or unwilling to prevent.
When the bubble burst after 2008, land prices collapsed, debts went bad, and Ireland’s private banks failed.
Cynics view this as merely an argument of convenience, one that has gained in prominence only because the other two rationales for the war collapsed.
The decisive moment came after Lehman Brothers collapsed, and authorities had to guarantee that no other systemically important financial institution would be allowed to fail.
The financial crisis forced sovereign states to substitute their own credit for the credit that had collapsed, and in Europe each state had to do so on its own, calling into question the creditworthiness of European government bonds.
No debt restructuring took place and, small surprise, Russia's economy collapsed.
The Danish government almost collapsed in January when the Ministry of Labor proposed to open the job market to all new EU citizens who can prove that they have found employment.
This reflects the aftermath of wrenching balance-sheet recessions, in which aggregate demand, artificially propped up by asset-price bubbles, collapsed when the bubbles burst, leading to chronic impairment of overleveraged, asset-dependent consumers (America) and businesses (Japan).
In the 1980s, the dollar first soared against the Yen and European currencies, then it collapsed.
When the web of lies collapsed in November 1989, hundreds of thousands of Czechs and Slovaks poured into the streets to proclaim their freedom – and to sweep the banished and jailed playwright into Prague Castle as Czechoslovakia’s newly elected president.
Until the Soviet Union collapsed, each brief period of “détente” was followed by a new arms build-up.
The “declining terms of trade” argument has collapsed.
In many countries, tax receipts abruptly collapsed when the economy contracted, income dwindled, and real-estate transactions came to a halt.
Rather than acknowledge the problem and revise policies accordingly, Rousseff allegedly resorted to dodgy accounting tricks to enable her government ostensibly to meet its primary-surplus target without cutting social transfers, even as commodity prices collapsed.
Brazil is now facing its worst economic recession in 80 years; unemployment stands at almost 10%; annual inflation exceeds 10%; and living standards have collapsed.
Unfortunately, when global stock markets crashed in October 1987, the insurance turned out to be useless, mainly because markets for hedging collapsed.
Shortly after Xi’s assumption of power, he lamented to local officials in Guangdong that when the Soviet Union collapsed, the elite had lost the will to fight.
When tried in Greece, government spending fell, taxes rose, and output collapsed.
When net exports collapsed in 2008-2009 from 11% of GDP to 5%, China’s leader reacted by further increasing the fixed-investment share of GDP from 42% to 47%.
According to the 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer, the public’s confidence in the status quo has collapsed worldwide, owing to widely held concerns about globalization, innovation, immigration, the erosion of social values, and corruption.
The EU most likely would have collapsed early on had it not been for what The Economist has described as its “spirit of grubby compromise.”
It is down by nearly 5% since the beginning of 2011, matching the lowest level plumbed since the Bretton Woods System of pegged exchange rates collapsed in 1973.
In Putin’s view, the Soviet Union collapsed under the weight of its debts.
The first Edo collapsed when the United States Navy opened up the Japanese market with the arrival of Commodore Perry’s “black ships” in 1853.
By the end of 1991, the Soviet Union had collapsed and Gorbachev was out of power.
That they want to get out, now that their reasons for the war have so dramatically collapsed and domestic support is fading, is beyond doubt.
Since the June 2016 Brexit referendum, British foreign policy seems to have all but collapsed – and even to have disowned its past and its governing ideas.
The talks collapsed: no compromise, no agreement.
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