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After all, the Soviet Union collapsed not because of Ronald Reagan’s military build-up in the 1980’s, with which communism was unable to compete, but because the Soviet command economy had already become obsolete in the 1970’s.
Even that rise was partly a bubble, which collapsed in the second half of 2008, when – after oil reached $145, killing global growth –the world economy fell into recession.
The second price spike occurred when Lehman Brothers collapsed, leaving investors scared about the safety of their financial assets – including bank deposits.
In other places, massive outmigration occurred in the context of political change, as in Europe when communism collapsed.
Trust in European institutions has collapsed, and political parties skeptical not just of the euro, but of the entire European project, are on the rise.
One reason for this is that banks are hoarding the additional money supply in the form of excess reserves, rather than lending it (in economic terms, the velocity of money has collapsed).
And now, following a massive decline in housing prices in countries that experienced a boom and bust, oil, energy and other commodity prices have collapsed.
As the price of oil collapsed in 2014, the government, having lost access to capital markets because of its profligacy, chose to continue servicing its bonded debt and default on its obligations to importers and most non-financial creditors.
The real estate bubble inflated and collapsed partly because millions of Americans borrowed more than they could afford to repay – and knew it.
It should have disappeared when the Soviet Union collapsed and the Warsaw Pact evaporated; its job was done.
Toynbee was right about the ensuing decades, but wrong about two places: the Soviet Union collapsed, and now China has become the world’s second-largest economy and a leading global player.
This gives the lie to the meme that manufacturing was stable for a long time, and then suddenly collapsed when China started making gains.
As a result, in the quarter-century since the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union collapsed, relations among the “great powers” have never been worse.
The same was true when Argentina's economy collapsed last year, when violence wracked Haiti and a hurricane ravaged Honduras before that, and whenever floods submerge villages in Bangladesh.
But, as it turned out, the mutualization model – used again in 1813 during the second war against the British – fueled a credit bubble, which collapsed in 1837 and thrust nine of the 29 US states and territories into bankruptcy.
To be sure, liberal democracies have felt threatened since communism collapsed in 1989 – but mostly by foreign terrorists, who tend not to form political parties and sit in these countries’ parliaments.
Two years after that first democratic parliament was summoned, the Soviet Union collapsed but Russia's peoples did not turn to radicals of either the right or left.
The currency, which traded at 3,000 rubles to the dollar in January, collapsed to 8,000-9,000 in mid-May, and the government was forced to devalue the official rate from 3,010 to 4,950, while continuing to restrict banks’ ability to buy foreign currency.
The Bretton Woods system collapsed four years later.
Investors remain willing to finance the US at rock-bottom interest rates, and the nominal trade-weighted index of the dollar has not collapsed.
The government quickly collapsed and was replaced by one that devalued the currency and defaulted on the country’s debts.
Unfortunately, the system completely collapsed after the war broke out in August 1914.
Political institutions had collapsed, the justice system was in disarray, and the national budget was in tatters.
At 4% growth per annum, it will take Russia's economy another decade to get back to where it was when communism collapsed.
The Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989 much more rapidly than most West Germans would have dreamed (or dreaded).
Since 2008, when the WTO’s Doha Round of global free-trade talks collapsed, the Europeans have proved unable to bring the US, China, and India back to the multilateral negotiating table.
The household saving rate has collapsed in recent years, falling to less than 2%.
Large parts of the northern hemisphere continue to struggle with the legacies of the great European empires – Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman – that collapsed in WWI’s wake, or whose decline, like that of the British Empire, was initiated by the war and sealed by its even bloodier sequel a generation later.
When communism collapsed, the center disappeared altogether.
One primary reason, I believe, is that the trust created by hard work and mutual effort in ending the Cold War has collapsed.
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