It is in no one s interest to see these critical institutions come crashing down.

Insurgent movements that succeed do so because the government s will collapses.

Why should predictions of the collapse of CCP rule be taken seriously now?

Small wonder that when the sub prime market blew up, these markets also froze.

Whatever the cause, when the risk tolerance of the market crashes, so do prices of risky financial assets.

The bonfire was sparked by the collapse of the Thai baht in the summer of 1997.

What those forecasting the eurozone s collapse overlooked was the commitment of elected officials and their constituents to the European project.

Two events have sharply accelerated the collapse of confidence in Putin s regime, both among the elite and ordinary Russians.

Bush is playing a dangerous game, risking the collapse of Pakistan s political process for the sake of his own legacy.

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

Markets had factored into share prices the belief that the US government would not allow any more banks to collapse.

Does that experience suggest that the NASDAQ index will drop sharply if the Fed raises interest rates on June 30?

The Cold War ended when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, and is now remembered only as history to most people around the world.

Eurozone banks became among the world s most over leveraged and the worst affected by the crash of 2008.

And how about stock market declines that are accompanied by a steep and persistent collapse in earnings by depressions?

The fact is that the European economy has been affected more by sub prime mortgages in the United States than by a carbon price in Europe.

In 2009, these distortions led Ferguson and Schularick to forecast Chimerica s collapse a prediction that seems to be coming true.

What is most likely to precipitate a dollar crash is evidence that US budgets are not being made by responsible adults.

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.

Ultimately, limiting the ECB to its conventional tool kit amounts to accepting the risk of a eurozone collapse.

Indeed, China should make clear that, much as it would prefer North Korea to survive and prosper, it could afford to allow its erstwhile ally to implode.

Frank Furedi, a former professor of Sociology and writer for Spiked magazine, says that today's culture of fear did not begin with the collapse of the World Trade Center.

They tell us that the recent financial crisis pales in comparison to the looming ecological credit crunch, which could presage a large scale ecosystem collapse.

Make no mistake. If Detroit s Big Three go bankrupt, the perfect storm really will have arrived with a collapse in both the real economy and the financial sector.

Liberal democracies in the West today are struggling to avoid and in doing so are exacerbating a crisis of identity, which puts the existing social contract at risk and threatens their implosion.

We have it in our power to eliminate the financial system s rapidly growing debt and to create a new monetary order that corresponds to free enterprise principles and the rule of law, without risking a breakdown of the entire payment system.

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali s ouster in Tunisia signalled the collapse of the Arab stability model, praised by many Western leaders, consisting of authoritarianism and overrated economic performance.

All these developments subtly indicate a deep trend that can be formalized in one sentence America s unipolar moment, which began in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Empire, is over.

Sudan s authoritarian rule and social division along religious lines, together with economic difficulties and political ineptitude, precipitated the collapse of the central government s authority in the country s Christian majority south.

They appeal, above all, to the logic of popular suspicion that perhaps becomes inevitable when a proud nation is suddenly laid low Pigna, like Lanata, presents a history full of conspiracy, lies, treason, and corruption.

But, even if an early general election cannot be ruled out completely, it seems implausible that either party will feel it has much to gain from precipitating the collapse of the national government.

Because they know that it will take time for domestic demand to pick up, emerging markets are unwilling to risk a collapse in exports to the US by allowing their currencies to strengthen against the dollar too quickly.

From the late 1980 s until 2000, many observers presented the Party as being on its last legs, certain to succumb to the Leninist extinction that began with communism s collapse in Europe.

An army massacre in a community of returned refugees in 1995 and a 1996 kidnapping by URNG were grave breaches of the human rights agreement, which threatened, each in its own way, to undermine the peace talks.

BRUSSELS Two years after the world economy suffered a nervous breakdown in the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, global financial markets remain unsettled, and the recovery that started so vigorously in 2009 seems to be stalling.

Insurgent movements that succeed do so because the government s will collapses. It is not clear at this point how much determination Iraq s emerging democratic leaders will have.

The reality is that they were the perpetrators, not the victims, and it seemed particularly galling that they were continuing to hold a gun to the heads of governments, demanding massive bailouts and threatening economic collapse otherwise.

In the case of China, the most useful precedent is probably that of Japan in the period from the end of the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate regime in August, 1971, to the collapse of its bubble economy in 1990.

Discredited by the collapse of the USSR and the Soviet bloc in Eastern Europe, communism is effectively moribund, and its core constituencies where communist parties manage to hang on are aging and incapable of reproducing themselves.

China s unwillingness, for example, to join other members of the international community in pressuring Iran and North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons programs foreshadows the potential collapse of the nuclear non proliferation regime.

There are signs of a growing debate inside the country about whether to press ahead with nuclear weapons and thus risk not only economic ruin, but also military attack rather than to accept a diplomatic compromise.

With that guarantee broken by Lehman Brothers collapse, every financial institution immediately sought to acquire a much greater capital cushion in order to avoid the need to draw on government support, but found it impossible to do so.

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. The size of the calamity raises the question of whether small countries can really afford bank bailouts.

And that could happen sooner rather than later France cannot and will not give up on the Mediterranean region, so the exit fantasies entertained by rich northern Europeans (Germans, above all) endanger the Franco German pillar of European peace.

For a long time, it was much easier to repeat the soothing mantra that the world community had collectively learned how to avoid a 1929 style collapse, and that the world s central banks clearly showed this in 1987 or 2001.