Germany was reluctant to give up the Deutsche Mark, a symbol of its economic power and commitment to price stability.

The fundamental benchmark interest rates in modern financial markets are the so called risk free rates on government bonds.

A Great Breakdown?

Crash report

Capitalist Meltdown

The Middle East Crack Up

Free Trade Breakdown

Motor City Meltdown

Some critics object that a collapse of US Treasuries and a dollar crash are not the same.

Crashing the SDR

Both foundations collapsed.

The Middle East Meltdown and Global Risk

Melting Pot or Economic Meltdown

Then came the crash of 2008.

Often, bargaining will break down.

All this has to be seen in the context of a health system that has collapsed in the wake of the collapse of the Congolese State, so that medical care is virtually non existent.

Sami was having a breakdown.

The breakdown of public trust in Japanese officialdom would be worrying were it to lead to a democratic breakdown.

First, it prevented the collapse of the banking system.

But talk of an OPEC breakup is premature.

The collapsing of buildings happens all too often in Egypt.

Now that the booms have been reversed, a decline in confidence could engulf the world economy, throwing it into recession.

I'd like to deal with the lack of affordable personal mobility in this country by making it very cheaply possible for low income families to get efficient, reliable, warranted new cars that they could otherwise never get.

This was followed by a second crash, another boom from 1932 to 1937, and a third crash.

A wider breakdown of regional order in the Middle East.

If the army collapses, it is Algeria France which collapses.

And, since the collapse of communism, there has been no coherent alternative to capitalism.

They were contagious across national frontiers.

External challenges do sometimes bring down states.

Other times, children collapse spontaneously while playing.

The collapse of state institutions exacerbates the conflict's impact.

The feared implosion of Wall Street seems to have been avoided.

Either way, the dollar collapse has to continue.

This is the nightmare outcome that risks replicating the Crash of 1929.

This asset meltdown is the reason for the likely recession.

Speculation about a possible breakup was widespread.

The collapse of the Soviet system also inspired several songs.

Carbohydrase is an enzyme that catalyzes the breakdown of carbohydrates into simple sugars.

The project was canceled in 1991 due to the collapse of Yugoslavia.

With the Soviet Union s collapse, a unique opportunity to end the nuclear competition emerged.

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

For all of these reasons, the specter of a eurozone collapse has not been dispatched.

Rather, it is a by product of its own acute fears of regime collapse.

The 2008 recession was triggered by the collapse of a real estate bubble.

Such over investment produces an inevitable collapse.