Perhaps they think prosperity will vanish in a puff of terrorist smoke or a housing-market collapse.
"Then the whole thing goes up in a puff of smoke, " she said.
Over and over again Ms Reno has intimated that a deadline was about to be reached, only to let it vanish in a puff of smoke.
There would be no collaterialised debt obligations, (CDOs), no credit default swaps (CDS), indeed much of the complexity of the financial markets would simply disappear in a puff of smoke.
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The benefits for high-income taxpayers are for the most part loaded onto the back end of the law's ten-year span, and at the end of that period the whole thing vanishes in a puff of smoke.
The announcement that a decision has been made will come in the form of a puff of white smoke emerging from a chimney in the Vatican.
Thanks to him, Turks can shop at Carrefoursa, stay in a Hiltonsa, puff on cigarettes made by Philip Morrissa, and have their computers serviced and programmed by I-Bimsa.
However, if not, what looks like a cloud could, in fact, be merely a puff of smoke.
But Vatican insiders aren't the only prospective pontiffs punters can wager on in the hopes that a puff of white smoke will finally put their bank accounts into the black.
One of the best examples is Lung King Heen, the Michelin-starred restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong, where chef Chan Yan Tak has added duck liver and black truffles to pork dumplings, and invented new dim sums, like abalone baked in a cup of flaky puff pastry.
"Pinch a cup of porridge oats from the breakfast buffet, tie it up in a sock, float the sock in a hot water, then use as a puff to massage your body, " Coombe added.
He is a little bigger than the others and is a sort of fluffy charcoal colour, like a dandelion puff ball dipped in soot.
They found that just over half of the 15 to16-year-olds said they had not had a puff of a cigarette in the past three months.
Moreover, the rats that successfully completed the more difficult task, which involved a longer gap in time between the sound and the puff of air, had retained more new neurons than those assigned easier tasks, with shorter gaps.
The paper ridiculed Mr Kinnock as the "huff and puff man", saying his first parliamentary term in charge had been a "sad disappointment".
Tall and wiry, with a puff of wavy dark hair, he is nearly as well known in Washington for his punishing early-morning workouts as he is for his mastery of the federal budget.
By no means a way to puff myself, I would like to let you know that I grew up in an average middle-class family with no relatives who were professionals or even went to college.
Connor fluffed a simple penalty chance from in front of the posts, but a fine break from Sonny Parker - brushing through Jamie Robinson's powder-puff tackle - earned a second chance.
Like recent offerings from Ford and others, the 2014 model adds a much larger 9.4 kWh battery to last year's non-plug-in hybrid, letting you trundle on electrons alone at up to 80MPH for 20 miles or so with with nary a puff of CO2.
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