This three-page graduate-level research paper examines the collapse of the Mexican peso in 1994-95, and the impact of related economic crises before and after this development. The author analyzes the failure of the risk assessment process, identifies economic variables that respectively did and did not accurately indicate the possibility of the peso’s collapse, and compares the views of a number of economic experts on these issues. The paper then explores what lessons can be learned from the collapse of the peso, and how future currency crises may be averted.