Paul Krugman, the Princeton economist, said the intransigence of European politicians was triggering "a full-scale market run on the much larger economies of Spain and Italy".
In other words, it ended just as the failure of Lehman Brothers — on Mr. Bush's watch — was triggering a broad financial and economic collapse.
Bank of Ireland has prompted fury after revealing it was triggering a "special condition" clause contained in loan agreements that, it said, allowed it to increase the interest rate "differential" on some of its UK base rate tracker mortgages.
In February 2013, Bank of Ireland prompted fury after revealing it was triggering a "special condition" clause in loan agreements that allowed it to increase the "interest rate differential" on some of its UK base rate tracker mortgages.
And while these blood-flow changes at first appeared sluggish compared to the neural activity, further analysis revealed that the fluctuations did in fact represent a cumulative effect; each small neural signal was triggering a small, slow increase in blood flow.
He added that the "reckless US provocative insanity" of mobilising a "gangster filmmaker" to challenge the North's leadership was triggering "a gust of hatred and rage" among North Korean people and soldiers.
