Public-housing developments are torn down, schools are closed en masse, thousands of houses are left abandoned by the banks.
It raised interest rates to prick the stock bubble of the late 1920s and to defend gold reserves, and when higher rates squeezed banks into trouble, it failed to step in to save them or to offset the fall in the money supply when they closed en masse.
The slowdown in exports has accelerated a major shift in the nature of Chinese manufacturing: small factories that were already being pinched by rising costs of labor, transportation and raw materials, as well as by the appreciating yuan, are closing en masse.
In the past few years simple tasks such as paying bills without some extra charge have become harder as post offices have closed en masse and now one must go online to pay or discover whether it is Pingit, Paypoint or whatever.
"In England, in the first year of the cuts process in 2010-11, libraries were closed en masse, we saw leisure centres closed, we saw huge staff reductions across English local government - in total I think there's been around 230,000 job losses.
"We know that in England, in the first year of the cuts process in 2010-11, libraries were closed en masse, we saw leisure centres closed, we saw huge staff reductions across English local government - in total I think there's been around 230,000 job losses.
While traditional clubs have been closing en masse, those that remain open still get packed to capacity.
"We'll see an immediate barrage of legislation that mirrors what we've seen in other states where clinics have closed en masse, like in Texas and Virginia," West added.
With soldiers being murdered in their sleep, embassies closing en masse in fear of an imminent wave of attacks and multiple drone strikes, the country seems to be the latest sandbox full of blood in the US' War on Terror.
