But there's a global olive oil crisis: the regional government had to inject 62m euros into olive oil cooperatives to get them through the collapse in prices.
Lehman was one of the biggest commercial paper dealers, and its collapse sent shock waves through the short-term debt markets, limiting the ability of companies to raise short-term cash.
Recently, I read an article by Carl Richards in the New York Times which could be titled Fear and Hoping in Las Vegas: An Insightful Journey through the Collapse of the American Dream.
The good news is that if we get through 2012 without the financial collapse of a big bank or a eurozone government, our economy will probably muddle through, flatlining rather than falling back into acute recession.
For a country that went through a notorious currency collapse in 1997, baht movements have special significance, although the fundamentals of the Thai economy seem more solid now than during the hot money flow that preceded the Asian financial crisis.
They could well collapse if the bill were to go through the Knesset.
That will happen - is happening - when their economies collapse and domestic prices and wages fall through the floor.
That company, an umbrella for holdings in the Internet sector, had just gone through the wrenching dot-com collapse.
But if Republicans block such efforts, as seems likely, then America's great attempt to achieve universal coverage through regulated private markets will eventually collapse.
Then in the 1990s it overreached, descended into boardroom chaos and came close to collapse as the business landscape around it went through profound changes.
But the fear then was that if the bailout wasn't arranged, a collapse of Long-Term Capital would ripple through the global banking system, which had major exposure as a counterparty to those highly leveraged bets.
The housing collapse that precipitated the financial crisis is still reverberating through the system.
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Daytime temperatures in Kosovo, which can exceed 32C (90F), increase the possibility Ms Becker could suffer imminent circulatory collapse as she loses fluids which are not replaced through drinking.
Speculation about a coming collapse in the real estate market is sending shudders through communities of home owners, bankers and just about everyone who's ever aspired to own their own home.
U.S. taxpayers were forced to pay for the stupidity and recklessness of our banks and financial institutions that frivolously lent to individuals with no justifiable means of repayment and then leveraged those loans through complex derivatives which caused the financial collapse of 2008.
Now, print journalism in the U.S. is going through something that can be described as revenue collapse.
But since the collapse of Equitable Life three years ago, the industry has been through wrenching changes.
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Once alight, the smouldering fire spreads slowly through the peat and can cause the ground above to collapse.
But it was -- especially last September through December, things were quite concerning here with the collapse of Wall Street.
Expect this to last through mid-2015, after which you can anticipate another collapse.
The conviction of and subsequent 25-year sentence given to Bernie Ebbers make an excellent case for repealing or substantially modifying the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a destructive piece of legislation rushed through Congress three years ago in the aftermath of the WorldCom collapse.
Murray said Thursday that if the miners survived the collapse, they could continue to live on fresh air, food and water supplied through the holes until crews can remove tons of coal and rock that clogged a collapsed tunnel.
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Anyone who has studied or lived through the financial panics of 9-11-2001, the 1998 collapse of Long Term Capital Management, the 1989-1991 savings and loan disaster and the 1994 Mexican peso devaluation can remember that they were similar in magnitude.
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The government is keen to rush through a new law to reform financial regulation in Italy because of the collapse of Parmalat, a dairy group, which took with it the savings of tens of thousands of investors who held the company's bonds.
Over the next three and a half years CBS stumbled through a protracted writers' strike that crippled Hollywood and into the near-collapse of the advertising market.
Objective Analysis continues to call for depressed pricing through the first half of 2013, but the industry has moved from its cyclical phase of price collapse to a phase of cost-based pricing, which could result in continuing mild month-to-month growth for the interim.
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