Olam's profit growth is driven by the volume of sales, and snack foods, where a lot of its nuts go, tend to be bust-proof.
Or to put it another way, the Spanish government would have struggled to finance itself without loans from the banks and the banks would be bust if the government were to go bust.
If they were, it might be bust, too.
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Greece is bust and Spain and Italy could be driven bust.
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What we can say, however, is that the bigger the bubble, the bigger will be the bust.
Or it may turn out to be a bust.
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If all other safeguards have come to naught, can big financial institutions be allowed to go bust (or be saved without asking taxpayers to stump up)?
"If you have the right sort of reforms...which in this case ought to be means of making it easier for banks to be allowed go bust safely without causing problems for taxpayers or the wider economy, you should introduce them at the earlier possible opportunity, " said Andrew Lilico, from financial consultancy Europe Economic.
Yet even if the recovery can be sustained, many smaller insurers are so puny that they will either go bust or be taken over.
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So, if the private banks are a no show, a deflationary bust will be in the making.
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For one thing, those banks left standing after the bust will be far more parsimonious with consumer credit.
The main reason for the dollar's jitters was evidence that the housing bust may be infecting the broader economy.
But the United States element of the bust may be just a piece of a larger operation, the attorneys said.
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Although overall business investment continued to fall at the end of 2001, there were tentative signs that the investment bust may be ending.
Alaska might be known as a boom and bust economy, but even with high unemployment 2008 will be the 21st year of adding jobs to the economy.
Without this cushion America's housing bust would be far worse.
This special report will ask how banks should be run and regulated so that the next time boom turns to bust the outcome will be less miserable for all concerned.
As we discussed HERE , whether this next bust will be a deflationary or inflationary one is yet to be determined, ultimately by the monetary policy of the Federal Reserve.
The Maastricht Treaty explicitly forbids the European Central Bank to bail out any member country, but the markets clearly reckon that there is little chance that a government would be allowed to go bust.
Only a supranational body with a high degree of public trust can decide, for example, what proportion of the losses from Spain's banking bust should be borne by Slovakian pensioners as opposed to the investors, managers and employees of those banks.
The current monetary inflation that is the Bernanke boom-bust-to-be is already multiples larger than the monetary inflation that produced the tech bust and, at this point in the boom-bust cycle, even larger than the inflationary surge that gave us the housing bust turn Great Recession.
But can we be sure that it will be the least productive firms that go bust in recessions, and that they really will be replaced by new, more profitable ones?
Apparently following in the footsteps of the BlackBook, Apple is only offering the 8GB unit in a single color, so if black's your thing, be prepared to go high-end or bust in order to get one -- be sure to hit the read link for a luscious gallery of Tony Chang's presumably coveted 'Pod.
To be sure, the ability of Cyprus to become a player in the boom-and-bust energy industry remains to be seen.
Loans to property developers are riskier and banks' profits will be hurt as developers go bust.
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If wages are flexible and workers mobile, this bust need not be too bad.
Weaker banks should go bust, then be wound up or sold to stronger institutions, including foreign bidders.
As many as 30 of the less glamorous professional English football clubs are thought to be in danger of going bust.
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