Anatomy of a Crash

Your help prevented me from being ruined.

The country's economy is about to collapse.

In fact, the country is on the verge of total collapse.

Is the world economy on the brink of recession?

Indeed, a drastic shift in policy is essential to avoid economic collapse.

ITHACA, NY The US financial system is careening on the edge of a meltdown.

The regime knows that its survival depends on preventing economic collapse.

From the wreckage that has inevitably followed, a succession of new economies has emerged.

LOS ANGELES A few weeks ago, the world was on the edge of disaster.

The inflation of the 1970's was a natural failure of Keynesian political economy.

PRINCETON The most recent phase of the financial crisis, since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, has been characterized by large bank losses and the continued threat of bank collapses.

Will it flounder or regain its health ?

True, the General had been called upon and elected by the floundering French Parliament.

As for currency collapse, the most prominent candidate has to be the euro.

A probable cause of the collapse of the interbank market is precisely informational failure.

In certain bargaining situations, weakness and the threat of collapse can be a source of power.

And then, in 1945, after the public s focus had turned from winning the war to constructing a welfare state, Churchill was voted out of office. His charisma did not predict defeat the change in followers needs did.

His charisma did not predict defeat the change in followers needs did.

Indeed, the world s financial system is still feeling the aftershocks of the Lehman collapse.

There are clear historical precedents for reining in over exuberant and over innovative sectors.

The economist considers the revocation of licenses of a number of banks in recent weeks to be a harbinger of a massive crash.

But to save a financial system from collapse requires preventing all banks from failing at the same time.

But China, which fears a collapse of the North Korean regime above all, does not want to antagonize Kim.

However, this central pillar of international proliferation control is on the brink of collapse.

Indeed, China can probably avoid the financial meltdown widely feared in the summer.

America today presents the paradox of a rich country falling apart because of the collapse of its core values.

Indeed, the Wall Street Journal ran a story about it on the morning of the 1987 crash.

No previous anniversary of the 1987 crash showed any such drop.

Even to contemplate such a possibility is proof of diplomatic failure, not a triumph of real leadership.

Any government decision needs to be signed by a score of senior officials with no political mandate but who maintain Soviet views.

But then it shot up again following the failure of Bear Stearns and the problems with AIG.

There is much discussion of breaking up banks that are too big to fail.

Russia's bureaucratic apparatus has grown after communism, extending its dead hand over society.

Ukraine is wracked by the biggest protests seen since communism's collapse over a decade ago.

What role should central banks and national treasuries play in a cross border European banking collapse?

And when, after the collapse of communism, the end of history seemed near, ideological politics was thought to have vanished forever.

Its banks avoided the boom bust cycle of the past decade, having learned from the banking collapse in 2000 2001.

Most fundamentally, can the scope of economic disaster witnessed following the Soviet Union's collapse be avoided?

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, peace and liberty are more or less taken for granted.

The internet bust, when it finally came, was caused not by an unsound business model, but by over extension of credit.

So I realized in that dotcom crash that my role in life was to channel Abe Maslow.

Indeed, the Wall Street Journal ran a story about it on the morning of the 1987 crash.

It nevertheless still remained a free city until the total collapse of the Holy Roman Empire in 1805 6.

After the Republican convention, polls showed McCain ahead in early September, but after the financial meltdown, Obama took the lead.