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Margin calls often lead to forced selling, which can cascade and lead to even bigger market pullbacks.

Already, less than half of the Federal Reserve’s coin-distribution locations are still filling orders for pennies, causing cascading problems at fast-food restaurants and convenience stores.

Officials at the state-owned power company said generation units in two major power plants had shut down, causing "a cascade of failures" in other parts of the grid.

The result is that across Canada, and especially in Vancouver, airports face chronic controller shortages and outages, leading to cascading delays.

This disruption blocks the brain's ability to clear out waste, setting off a cascade of damaging neurodegenerative effects that lead to the symptoms of the disease.