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And more was at stake in these asset-market collapses than the money of hedge-fund investors: The sharp rise in the yen last fall threatened to send Japan into a deflationary spiral, the drying up of liquidity in the United States briefly seemed to threaten a general financial collapse.
Thanks to world capital flow, says Sweeney, "financial collapses have grown more severe and more frequent."
“If you lose any one, the whole thing collapses,” says Parker.
Someone tries to build something, and it collapses in a heap of rubble.
(You know, it's really easy to reglue that sort of thing before the whole frame collapses and the rattan tears--but I suppose it does make handy kindling.