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As communism collapsed, the conformist momentum -- born of fevered cultural insecurity -- gathered pace.
The deadlock spilled over into the country's politics, with shifting coalitions forming four successive governments that collapsed within months, each time in a welter of recrimination from the parties that had been excluded.
Whatever the means, governments are striving to interfere with the work of political, social, and environmental activists to an extent not seen since before communism collapsed in Europe a quarter-century ago.
Following the overthrow of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s government by northern Houthi rebels, who now occupy the capital, Sana’a, that consensus has collapsed.
The old centralized political structure built around Nehru's Congress Party collapsed in the mid-1990s, giving way to a succession of weak multi-party governments.
Cross-border capital flows abruptly collapsed.
Support for compliant establishment parties duly collapsed – from 81% in 2009 to 49% in 2014 in Spain.
“Surplus” Chinese savings made possible America’s credit expansion between 2003-2005, when the federal funds rate (the overnight rate at which US banks lend to one another) was held at 1%.Ultra-cheap money produced a surge in sub-prime mortgage lending – a market that collapsed when interest rates increased steadily after 2005, reaching 5%.The financial crisis of 2008 was the start of a highly painful, but inevitable, process of de-leveraging.
The current situation, in which speculative booms have driven the world economy – and, having collapsed, are now driving it into recession – suggests that there may have been a lot of bad faith by people promoting certain investments.
When the Habsburg and Ottoman empires collapsed at the end of World War I, attempts were made to establish modern nation-states in the Balkans, despite the region’s national and cultural diversity.
Yugoslavia collapsed in the early 1990’s, triggering a decade of brutal wars from Croatia to Kosovo.
When oil prices collapsed in the mid-1980s, household consumption collapsed; soon after, so did the Soviet Union.
After all, Argentina’s hated junta collapsed just four years after the country’s World Cup triumph (following its military defeat by Britain).
The economy has collapsed, with little sign of recovery.
As soon as Soviet power in Eastern Europe collapsed in 1989, those countries could switch to the superior Western technologies in computers, telecommunications, transport, pharmaceuticals, and many other areas.
But matters have gotten worse: border tensions between the US and Mexico have grown, the proposed wall has rightly provoked indignation, more unauthorized immigrants than ever are entering the US, and the FTAA has collapsed.
The Great Depression of the 1930’s, when the Fed stood idly by as the economy collapsed, is the molding event seared into the consciousness of every American central banker.
Many bankers also suffered direct losses as their banks collapsed, or as investigations exposed them to public ridicule, and even jail.
Yet, in the end, credibility collapsed because of the lack of flexibility.
The informal financial sector – which conducts 40% of India’s total lending, largely in rural areas – has all but collapsed.
But the impact of his misrule is such that Venezuelans are dying from starvation, the health-care system has collapsed, and violence and contagious diseases are now practically out of control.
The data bear this out: FDI outflows more than doubled in 2008, to $52 billion, from $23 billion in 2007, and rose even further in 2009 (when world FDI flows collapsed by about 50%, owing to the Western financial and economic crisis), before reaching $68 billion in 2010.
Stephen Roach has suggested that in the post-crisis global economy “relapse is the rule”; economist Brad DeLong, speaking of the “consequences of our lesser depression,” argues that the pretense of a eurozone recovery has collapsed; and European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has acknowledged the need not only for structural reform, but also fiscal expansion to boost aggregate demand.
Scorned by Bush administration hardliners, the agreement collapsed in mutual recrimination in 2002.
Even though America’s financial markets nearly collapsed, its public-debt levels rose sharply, and the Federal Reserve was forced to undertake massive monetary expansion to support the economy, the dollar strengthened relative to most other currencies.
The northern state of Kachin – which is rich in natural resources, and serves as a vital transport route to China – has experienced fierce fighting since a 17-year truce between the Burmese military and the Kachin Independence Army collapsed in 2011.
As a result, Norwegian salmon exports to China collapsed.
Post-EU DepressionThe government of Poland collapsed first, followed by the Czech government.
Output in each industry collapsed, and the consequences for Venezuela have become catastrophic.
European fascism collapsed with the defeat of Germany in 1945, but less aggressive forms lived on elsewhere, such as Argentina with its Peronism.
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