1.   Business leaders feared a Netanyahu victory would lead to a stalled peace process and corresponding economic paralysis.

2.   However, the economic paralysis has pushed up prices and millions of people have lost their jobs.

3.   This is a risk of economic paralysis.

4.   The US military has warned that North Korea, crippled by economic paralysis and spreading food shortages, could collapse internally or lash out at the south.

5.   Washington has sought to engage North Korea, fearing that spreading economic paralysis could lead to desperate actions by a sinking, but heavily armed regime.