In such a situation, the crisis will have triggered a social rather than an economic domino effect, which is no less worrisome.

Globalisation produced its own domino effect. The dominoes toppled GDP rose millions were lifted out of poverty literacy rates soared child mortality figures fell.

The domino theory was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.

Sovereign spreads are already pricing the risk of a domino effect from Greece to Spain, Portugal, and other euro zone members.

Mistaken beliefs, on the other hand, are reflected in metaphors like contagion and domino effect, which imply that financial markets become blind, virulent, and indiscriminate when they are disturbed.

This might trigger a positive domino effect as well, as other states on grounds of international financial integration adopt similar procedures for controlled liquidation of their own insolvent banks.

The other euro zone countries, however, will not let Greece go under, because they fear a domino effect similar to the one triggered among banks by the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.

Is Syria the Next Domino?

Obviously, the domino effect need not stop there the insolvency of banks A and B could get a bank C and additional banks into trouble.

But the prevailing domino theory is incomplete.

In early August, the domino effect of the eurozone periphery s sovereign debt crisis started to kick in, because financial markets do not wait for country after country to be downgraded.

Where will they drive the country? With Tunisia regarded by most Western analysts as Arab and Islamic, would there be a domino effect in the Middle East?

A significant exception is some forms of the domino logic family.

Banks have not failed, and there is no sign of tumbling dominoes.

Indeed, it can be argued that the political dominos are already falling.

But then a wide range of inherently different countries seemed to line up like a row of dominos.

The domino effect from the Tunisian revolution has produced further vivid accounts of corruption and deception, from Egypt and Libya to the Gulf, in each case stoking even greater anger and making more regimes vulnerable.

The coming years or even months are likely to see new forms of these domino effects.

Where will they drive the country? With Tunisia regarded by most Western analysts as Arab and Islamic, would there be a domino effect in the Middle East?

First, banks were the primary creditors, and the large losses that they would face in any restructuring was bound to trigger a domino effect, with waves of pessimism driving up interest rates and ruining other borrowers prospects.

Mistaken beliefs, on the other hand, are reflected in metaphors like contagion and domino effect, which imply that financial markets become blind, virulent, and indiscriminate when they are disturbed. Such terms provoke fear that, once confidence in any one country is lost, all others are in danger.

And, if intervention fails, even boosting the fund to 1 trillion or 1.5 trillion would be inadequate, because there would be a crippling domino effect a Spanish crisis would affect Italy, an Italian crisis would hit France, and a French crisis would leave Germany as virtually the sole guarantor of an unbearable debt burden.

After all, private creditors hold only a minimal share of Greek debt nowadays. In 2010 2012, by contrast, systemically important European banks were exposed, raising the risk of a domino effect that threatened the entire eurozone.

Rather than the dominos falling following America s retreat from Saigon in 1975, a Vietnam Cambodian War ensued.

Its effect is almost as important as that of smoking.

It has also referred to a desire to avoid feared bandwagon or underdog effects on the electorate.

The Snowden Effect

So the West should see the job through in Afghanistan do it better but do it. Sometimes the dominoes do topple over, one by one.

Separating the budget s effects on the economy from those of the economy on the budget is tricky.

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Top officials draw allowances in US dollars ranging from 10500 to 12500, while their salaries are 55 60.

What Johnson failed to foresee were the domestic and regional constraints that would prevent the dominos from falling in the way he predicted.

As the Greek domino falls, countries like Portugal, Spain, or Italy start tumbling, and a small economy s crisis turns into a major European calamity.

It has been used as a surgical material since the 1940s, and has been shown to have a strong anti adhesive effect.

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