North Korea should, by rights, be tottering under the weight of its spectacular economic mismanagement.

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What it still sidesteps is the basis on which new equity will be injected into tottering banks.

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The effect of the collapsed banking system and tottering insurance industry has yet to be felt.

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Given the tottering economy, it ought to be impossible for the incumbent party to retain the White House this year.

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Even worse, as the impeachment process has enveloped him, he has behaved more like a tottering tyrant than as the pluralist democrat he once appeared to be.

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