My left lung had collapsed when I was born.

Argentina's collapse incited the largest default in history.

So when will this promised dollar collapse and crisis come?

But, though Russia s economy is undoubtedly in trouble, a full blown collapse is unlikely.

First came the apocalyptic collapse of fascism as Hitler took Germany with him into a collective suicide.

Enough! has recently been set up to coordinate individual and group efforts to prevent the infrastructure collapse in Ukraine.

Why on Earth? And if you haven't read Jared Diamond's book, Collapse, I totally recommend that you do.

A national economy that is excluded by sanctions is likely to stagnate or even collapse.

When the crash came in 2008, massive fiscal and monetary expansion prevented US consumption from collapsing.

And this has already saved millions of lives, and it has prevented entire economies from capsizing in Sub Saharan Africa.

The collapse of asset bubbles in the 1990 s left Japan s financial system and private sector saddled with a huge debt overhang.

A Jerusalem controlled by non productive Orthodox Jewish communities and disenfranchised Palestinians is destined for economic and political collapse.

Those high interest rates strangle businesses and households, causing further economic collapse and making debt ever more unsustainable.

I like climate crisis instead of climate collapse, but again, those of you who are good at branding, I need your help on this.

Indeed, it is now clear that governments prevented a full scale collapse of the financial system in 2008 by transforming toxic private debt into public debt.

Or did the coup prevent a total takeover of power by the Muslim Brotherhood, and thus avert Egypt s economic collapse and chaotic descent into religious dictatorship?

Of course, such a disorderly eurozone break up would be as severe a shock as the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, if not worse. Avoiding it would compel the eurozone's core economies to embrace the fourth and final option bribing the periphery to remain in a low growth uncompetitive state.

Of course, such a disorderly eurozone break up would be as severe a shock as the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, if not worse.

While those actions were needed to stem large scale capital flight and prevent the banking system s collapse, they also caused the Greek economy to contract sharply.

This created an unnecessary new deadline of February 28 for the withdrawal of ECB funding and consequent collapse of the Greek banking system.

Will it survive the current maelstrom of challenges exemplified by the recent assassination of Governor Salmaan Taseer of Punjab by one of his bodyguards, an Islamic zealot or will it capsize?

After all, economic and political breakdown in Russia would have profound adverse consequences well beyond Russia s borders particularly for Ukraine.

At the same time, a shutdown of the Greek banking system brought financial chaos throughout the country while domestic political parties traded accusations about political responsibility.

Financial deregulation together with easy money had contributed to excessive risk taking. Monetary policy would be relatively ineffective in reviving the economy, even if still easier money might prevent the financial system s total collapse.

In the early 1990's, it weathered the implosion of the Japanese economic miracle, and maintained a steady course through the Asian economic crisis later in the decade.

Monetary policy would be relatively ineffective in reviving the economy, even if still easier money might prevent the financial system s total collapse.

On March 3, 1983, he predicted that communism would collapse, stating, Communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written .

In the NIC s view, a collapse or sudden retreat of US power would most likely result in an extended period of global anarchy, with no stable international system and no leading power to replace the US.

What is also becoming apparent is the collapse of the region s old order, which had existed more or less unchanged since the end of World War I, and with it, the decline of the region s traditional stabilizing powers.

What makes this possibility the financial nightmare of choice, worse than the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, is the fear that many sovereign states have already shot all their bullets and would thus be powerless to intervene.

This geopolitical collapse occurred in part because Russians (not to mention their captive nations in Central and Eastern Europe) were seduced into believing that Western style democracy and free markets worked better.

And bubbles in other markets (for example, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada, Switzerland, France, Sweden, Norway, Australia, New Zealand) pose a new risk, as their collapse would drag down home prices.

The collapse of China s credit bubble would likely cause annual GDP growth to drop to 1 2 , on average, for the subsequent four years, assuming a 2 annual decline in capital expenditure and a still respectable consumption growth rate of 3 5 .