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Productivity collapsed in all of them.
This was highlighted by the surge in many countries’ housing prices in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis, the steep decline in asset and commodity prices immediately after Lehman Brothers collapsed, the return to asset-price inflation since then, and recent large currency fluctuations.
In parallel with the Scandinavian crisis, communism collapsed in Eastern Europe in 1989 and in 1991 in the Baltic states.
The Dee Bridge, whose cast- and wrought-iron design followed common practice for the period, collapsed under a passing train, killing everyone aboard.
Although it was only slightly longer than the highly successful cantilever bridge over the Forth River near Edinburgh, Scotland, the Quebec Bridge was so inadequately designed that it collapsed before it was completed.
When the Soviet Union collapsed more than two decades ago, and Ukraine opted for independence, many expected the country to do better than Russia in the years to come.
Victimized by an educational system that collapsed over a decade ago, they have few skills that can help them find employment in Iraq’s blighted economy.
During the ensuing campaign, Labour’s support collapsed, and the Conservatives ended up winning 330 of 630 seats.
None seem to have an explanation for why God’s wrath was especially directed to mosques, madrassas, and schools – all of which collapsed in huge numbers.
But, now that house prices have collapsed and credit is unavailable to underwater households, demand has plummeted.
Contemporary commenters despaired of the Roman Empire for several hundred years before it finally collapsed.
Instead, GDP has collapsed, with the Spanish and Italian economies expected to contract by close to 2% this year.
History Strikes BackMADRID – When the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union collapsed, the victors were beyond complacent, for they were certain that their triumph had been inevitable all along.
If this structure had been in place in the US in 2008, when house prices collapsed, banks that held large portfolios of underperforming toxic assets would have started to drag down the value of the index fund.
While these pseudo-religions collapsed, a benevolent ideology of social democracy dominated much of Europe.
Ultimately, the gold standard collapsed, after governments were forced to abandon it during World War I and thereafter were never able fully to re-establish public trust.
As world energy prices collapsed, Brazil fortuitously turned off its subsidy tap, whereupon a brutal Darwinian free-for-all ensued.
A Marshall Plan for the United StatesNEW YORK – When a major highway bridge in California collapsed last month, the impact on the entire southwestern United States once again highlighted the country’s serious infrastructure problem.
Outflows continued to rise to $57 billion in 2009, a time when global FDI flows had collapsed by 50%, making China the world’s fifth largest outward investor.
Indeed, Romania’s reformers confronted conditions that the Polish, Hungarian, and Russian reform governments had faced when communism first collapsed.
Bush’s foreign-policy paradigm of an alliance of “moderates” to defeat the “extremists” – a model too enthusiastically seconded by an unimaginative Israeli leadership and by those Arabs (led by Egypt and Saudi Arabia) who dread the forces of radical change – has collapsed.
They would have collapsed much more had a vast scheme to prop up their price via outright manipulation not been rapidly implemented.
Nixon was re-elected, but inflation soared and growth collapsed.
Now, of course, it contains many younger people who joined after those two old historical parties collapsed.
In parallel, colonialism collapsed, and we are now slightly more than halfway through a century-long process of modernization for the many developing countries that emerged.
The country’s income has collapsed by a third, inflation is on track to hit one million percent, and millions are starving in a country that ought to be reasonably well off.
The country’s economy has not just collapsed; it is structurally moribund.
Moreover, every past denuclearization agreement between the two countries has collapsed, and, since Trump took office, he and Kim have been lobbing insults and threats at each other.
Had the Wall not been built in 1961, would communism have collapsed sooner?
Why has that deal apparently collapsed?
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