The 53-year-old Grybauskaite, who is the European Union's budget commissioner, decided to run for president as an independent after public anger flared in January over Lithuania's economic collapse.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

The collapse of this was part of the reason for a general economic collapse.

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To some in Washington, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is the master economist whose aggressive actions and creative solutions prevented complete economic collapse in 2008, when major American banks, investment firms,insurance companies, and home mortgage giants were failing at a catastrophic pace.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

With a fledgling recovery gaining strength, it is easy to forget how close major industrialized nations came to economic collapse less than two years ago, an outcome that almost surely would have triggered a worldwide depression rivaling the Great Depression of the 1930s.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

Nye agrees with Mr.Klaus that the primary causes of the Soviet collapse were economic failure and the decline of communist ideology.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03