Although America's economy no longer looks on the point of collapse, it has failed to return to healthy growth.
At the time it was derelict, on the point of collapse, but they have renovated it to meet the specifications of a luxury retreat.
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"We are past the point of endless collapse, " Harvard University economist Jeffrey Sachs told a conference in Singapore in October.
Of course those who prefer a federalized version of deposit insurance will point to the near collapse of insurer AIG back in 2008 as an indication of why the FDIC should remain viable.
The LTCB is a case in point: despite rumors of the bank's imminent collapse, the government so far has not publicized the scope of the bank's problems.
Now eliminated from the FA Cup and scrambling for fourth place in the Premier League, the club is at a point where the season could collapse in a matter of days ahead of Bayern Munich's visit on Tuesday night.
The Glass-Steagall Act that contributed to the financial collapse by allowing businesses to grow to the point of systemic interdependence was repealed under Clinton, who campaigned as a liberal against the power of big businesses.
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At the other end of the philosophical spectrum, a re-release of Confronting Collapse by Michael Rupert, presents a 25-point program for action to address the imminent energy crisis.
The actions that Wall Street undertook over the course of many years to get us to the point where we saw the collapse that we did is proof enough that something has to change, and something has to change this year.
That event, in March 2008, is regarded as a tipping point for more the tumultuous upheavals that followed, including the September 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers, which the government allowed to fail.
Case in point: Meridith Whitney, who is given both credit for warning in 2007 of the collapse of Citigroup, and blame for predicting in 2010 that numerous municipalities would be in bankruptcy by now.
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Also up there is the fallout from a global economic collapse, possibly resulting from a state of peak oil -- the point where oil production reaches its peak and thereafter goes into freefall.
At some point, the accumulation of non-payable debt could lead to a banking crisis, or even economic collapse.
She has investigated the collapse of Enron, WorldCom and numerous other corporate scams and has reported on corruption from the point of view of the investor.
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