1.   Concern that impeachment proceedings in the United States will leave Washington rudderless as the global economy founders drove the U.S. dollar lower against the yen on Monday.

2.   Suriname has been rocked by labor unrest and political turmoil in the last year as the economy founders and prices soar.

3.   That tendency has only grown more pronounced as the economy founders in a decade-long slump and unemployment reaches new record highs every month.

4.   Considered a pragmatic reformist, Zhu enjoys considerable cachet abroad, but risks being targetted as the fall-guy at home if the economy founders.