But I learned something more profound than that, which is that the leaders the managers of Ghana's economy were making breathtakingly bad decisions that had brought our economy to the brink of collapse.

On previous occasions, whenever the financial system came to the brink of a breakdown, the authorities got their act together and pulled it back from the brink. This time the system actually broke down in the aftermath of Lehman Brothers collapse last September, and it had to be put on artificial life support.

Northeast Asia on the Brink

A Year on the Brink

Some are actually on the brink of extinction.

Finally, long term mismanagement and international sanctions have pushed the North Korean economy to the brink of collapse. As a result, the regime may be trying to divert people s attention from internal difficulties and push them to unite behind the emerging new leader.

Back to the Brink in Ukraine

Some enterprises do not meet the changes in the market environment and the production and management is difficult to sustain or even on the brink of collapse. But restrained by some institutional factors, they become zombie enterprises due to many obstacles to the market.

Today, as recent events have shown, isolation is more often than not a mistake, an unenviable condition resulting from failed policies. Cuba s emergence from decades of forced isolation is a victory for the island, while North Korea s pariah status has led it to the brink of collapse.

In fact, China already experienced the impact of deleveraging late last year, when the European financial system seemed on the brink of collapse. With European banks hunkering down, the renminbi s exchange rate fell for 11 consecutive days, even though China was running a current account surplus.

Back to the Brink for the Eurozone?

It's still heavy now, and it was heavy before that, but when you flipped open a newspaper, when you turned on the TV, it was about ice caps melting, wars going on around the world, earthquakes, hurricanes and an economy that was wobbling on the brink of collapse, and then eventually did collapse, and so many of us losing our homes, or our jobs, or our retirements, or our livelihoods.

After all, a short sighted approach not only undermines companies prospects it also threatens the entire economy. Indeed, managers irresponsible focus on advancing shareholders immediate interests, thereby maximizing their own bonuses, contributed significantly to bringing the global financial system to the brink of collapse in 2008.

All booms are different, but every major financial crisis has at its heart the same issue major banks get into trouble and teeter on the brink of collapse. Disruption at the core of any banking system leads to tight credit, with major negative effects on the real economy.

As a result, by 2006, global liquidity amounted to more than twice the value of world GDP. Add to that the American financial sector s untenable subprime and securitization activities, and it is not surprising that the next two years brought the global financial system to the brink of outright collapse.

Our livestock was almost at the brink of extinction, protected as well.

We could be on the brink of losing this huge humanitarian operation.

Collapse

We are on the brink of a historic opportunity, and therefore of a challenge.

We urge the Assembly to step back from the brink.

First Contact became humanity's salvation as it was at the brink of self destruction.

I have come to the brink of utter ruin, in the midst of the gathered assembly.

I have come to the brink of utter ruin, in the midst of the gathered assembly.

We had deflation during the Depression, but that was collapse of the money supply, collapse of consumer confidence, a completely different phenomena.

Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river

Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river

It is naive beyond description to think that having blocked this source of financial collapse, you have blocked all possible sources of financial collapse.

The old bridge is in danger of collapse.

We hear a lot about the collapse of cod.

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

And animals, almost on the brink of extinction, can be given a second chance. That's my next book.

The West may collapse very suddenly.

And then the financial collapse happened.

Jared Diamond on why societies collapse

Why Russia s Economy Will Not Collapse

His regime is bound to collapse.

His regime is bound to collapse.

Each of those times, we were on the verge of complete collapse.

The collapse of moral values and the decline of the family unit.

And it's pushing the ecosystem close to collapse.

At several crucial moments, he established himself as the only person who could rise to the challenges of transforming Russia from a dictatorship into a democracy, from a planned economy into a free market, and from an empire into a medium ranked power. In 1992, as the emerging Russian Federation teetered on the brink of economic and monetary collapse, he opted for radical reform, prompting a backlash from vested interest groups.

By dangling the threat of renewed conflict, Mr. Putin gives the talks a new purpose to coax him back from the brink.

The CCP, they insist, has proved its resilience since the Tiananmen crisis in 1989 and the collapse of Soviet communism in 1991. Why should predictions of the collapse of CCP rule be taken seriously now?

Within a few minutes, she went into cardiac collapse.

LONDON It seems to have become a ritual for United Nations climate negotiations to reach the brink of collapse before an intense, contentious compromise is achieved after the deadline. But the torturous conclusion to this year s talks in Doha in which nearly 200 countries agreed to extend the Kyoto protocol has merely set the stage for more dramatic negotiations in 2015, when a new comprehensive agreement must be reached.