Was he feeling nationalistic, hoping to demonstrate his ongoing faith in a Canadian tech company teetering on the edge of collapse?

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Mr. Bass explains that Japan is right on the edge of collapse due to a rapidly aging no growth economy that has been paying its bills by creating new money via computer key strokes.

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In sub-Saharan Africa, where much of the population lives on the edge of subsistence, poverty and slow economic growth, or outright decline, increased the likelihood of future state collapse, thereby trapping the countries in a vicious circle of poverty and political instability.

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Last month, the Greek prime minister, Antonis Samaras, warned Europe that his country was on the edge of a Weimar Germany-style social collapse.

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