Collapse

Indeed, the nightmare scenario haunting the world is the collapse of another shadow banking entity, causing global trade to freeze, as happened in 2008. The Basel III agreement on capital adequacy and other recent reforms still have not ring fenced trade financing from these potential shocks.

The old bridge is in danger of collapse.

The TPP initiative should be viewed against this background, and not just in the context of the collapse of the Doha Round. The TPP s nine sponsors have resolved to establish a comprehensive, next generation regional agreement that liberalizes trade and investment and addresses new and traditional trade issues and twenty first century challenges.

We sent only the feeblest of messages from the High level Plenary Meeting to our trade ministers, but unless they are given firm instructions to afford special and differential treatment to developing countries, the December Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Hong Kong will, like those held in Seattle and Cancun, yield a dismal collapse.

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.

Thus, though Smoot Hawley was not a direct cause of the Great Depression, as many have claimed, it did contribute to a breakdown of international trade precisely when the world could least afford it. The two thirds decline in aggregate imports from 1929 to 1933 was only partly a result of falling incomes, and hence import demand retaliatory trade and exchange rate policies also played a major role in bringing about the global trade collapse.

Indeed, the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve are doing all they can to pump up US spending. The only reason the US trade deficit is falling is that the country remains in a severe recession, causing US imports and exports to collapse in parallel.

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

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?

Couldn t earnings collapse? Couldn t the market undergo another 40 decline in the near future?

Economic collapse and food insecurity are now chronic conditions in Zimbabwe, as we heard.

In particular, we must undertake further efforts to prevent the collapse of vulnerable States.

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

And it's pushing the ecosystem close to collapse.

Rather than continuing to pursue piecemeal measures like those that it has just approved, the government needs to implement an integrated and targeted strategy for the reactivation of investment, employment, and trade. Indeed, a drastic shift in policy is essential to avoid economic collapse.

The world in which financial trust breaks down completely between Germany and France or Germany and the US is one in which we have much bigger problems than where a country s gold is located. International trade would collapse, and major global companies would struggle to sell their products.

In much of the world, consumers are now cutting their spending in response to a fall in their wealth and a fear of unemployment. The overwhelming force behind the current collapse of jobs, output, and trade flows, is even more important than the financial panic that followed Lehman Brothers default in September 2008.

Within a few minutes, she went into cardiac collapse.

We hear a lot about the collapse of cod.

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

In both cases, the long standing conflict led to the collapse of local livelihoods (either directly or indirectly, owing to the collapse of the local economy), which in turn reduced the resilience of the local population to natural hazards.

Growth in the region slowed sharply, as might be expected of export led economies confronted with the sharpest collapse in global trade since the 1930 s. But, with the notable exception of Japan, which suffered its deepest recession of the modern era, Asia came through an extraordinarily tough period in excellent shape.

So, this is a frequent theme societies collapse very soon after reaching their peak in power.

The heavens almost rupture therefrom and the earth splits open and the mountains collapse in devastation

The heavens almost rupture therefrom and the earth splits open and the mountains collapse in devastation

The free trade area foresees free trade in manufactured goods and a progressive liberalization of trade in agricultural products.

Now our Sun will not collapse to a black hole.

If there's a big earthquake, the house could really collapse!

CAMBRIDGE The world economy has seen globalization collapse once already. The gold standard era with its free capital mobility and open trade came to an abrupt end in 1914 and could not be resuscitated after World War I. Are we about to witness a similar global economic breakdown?

We passed a bunch of rules to regulate the financial industry in response to the recent collapse.

And here we have the countries in collapse and war, like Afghanistan, Somalia, parts of Congo, Darfur.

The near total extinction from 1994 to 2002 created a collapse in sea turtle tourism and revenues.

Did exogenous changes in income in Africa mainly drive the trade ratio when worldwide changes in trade regimes accompanied the striking change in trade ratios?

That in turn, because of the weak marketing system, led to an 80 percent collapse in maize prices in the country.

We did it so fast we weren't prepared for their collapse.

And it would get exhausted, and it would collapse every time.

The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.

The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.

The third thing on my checklist is relations with neighboring friendly societies that may prop up a society. And if that friendly support is pulled away, that may make a society more likely to collapse. In the case of the Greenland Norse, they had trade with the mother country Norway and that trade dwindled partly because Norway got weaker, partly because of sea ice between Greenland and Norway.