In "The Sewing Machine Girl," a sendup of sweatshops, Ms. Coca, with Mr. Reiner as a badgering, leering boss, worked faster and faster, drooping lower and lower, until at last she gave up, did a whirling dervish dance of consumption, collapsed in death throes and, sprouting wings, flew up to heaven on wires.
Given our economic growth was driven largely by exports and households' consumption, the collapse of exports in April and stagnant retail sales suggested a big hit to economic growth.
"In this scenario, global society essentially collapses as food production falls permanently short of consumption".
Yet, on the one hand, we in Labour have tended to collapse these sentiments into a mechanistic, indeed economistic, notion of consumption.
It has survived the collapse of the sophisticated civilisation that built it, centuries of consumption by the suffocating jungle and the nihilism of the Khmer Rouge, who beheaded its stone Buddhas and used its walls for target practice.
It was a level of consumption that, particularly when viewed against the concurrent collapse of the financial-services industry, almost immediately acquired a nostalgic air, the last gasp of the art boom.
The company reported that its income fell 33% in the fourth quarter, reflecting reduced consumption and the collapse of oil prices.Andrew Cuomo, New York's attorney general, may take a hard line on Merrill Lynch.
Maybe they didn't know about the impending global economic collapse (they probably did), but the sense lingered around them that this frenzy of consumption was a tenuous trend.
He could have also explained that consumers would not go back to their bubble levels of consumption since the wealth that had supported this consumption had disappeared with the collapse of the bubble.
Between the 100% predictable collapse of residential construction and the plunge in consumption that would follow the loss of the housing wealth that was driving it, we were looking at a loss of more than $1tn in annual demand.
For example, in the economic chaos that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, the country's energy consumption (and emissions) fell by nearly 30percentnt.
