Customers never need to worry about losing their music collection to a hard drive crash again.
Logic and reality are not going to reach them, until they crash hard into it and wake up.
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Some were hit hard by the 1997 crash, but most bounced back.
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Still, investors want answers from the SEC, and though their mission may be quixotic, the agency is trying to give people hard reasons for the crash.
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No derivatives, no 40x leverage, no layoffs and no foreclosures means no hard landing, no housing crash.
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Groupon seems unlikely to crash anywhere near that hard, if it crashes at all, but its current plight still feels familiar.
Since the global financial crash, banks have traveled a hard road of bad debt, volatile funding markets and an uncertain economy.
Others made money selling hard-currency life insurance just after the crash, when dollars were scarce and Russians were desperately seeking ways of preserving their roubles from inflation.
The Robin Hood tax, sort of like a Tobin tax, was proposed by Germany as a means to raise revenue for countries hit hard by the 2008 housing and credit markets crash.
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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), which performs its own crash testing and ratings, takes a hard-line stand: It does not recommend any small cars or SUVs for younger drivers.
The GDP issue is whether the Crash of '08 will cause people to work fewer years, less hard or less productively.
The Wall Street Crash was a product of an economy in deep depression - so governments work hard to prevent such problems happening again.
Instead, voters received a 90-minute crash course about why campaigns prepping for debates pray for low expectations: Anything higher is hard to meet.
In fact, much of the risk of a property crash still resided in the banks, and the complex nature of derivatives made their exposure very hard to calculate, leading to a loss of confidence in almost all of them.
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