"It'll just depend on how things pan out there with this bankruptcy, " says the pilot.

WSJ: AMR Bankruptcy Upends (Family) Financial Planning

It may well depend not just on what a company does but also on how it is perceived in the market.

ECONOMIST: The love-in

Their credibility might just depend on it.

FORBES: Short-Seller Attacks Highlight Chinese Companies Social Media Shortcomings

Confusion over the prescription drug plan is just one of many challenges facing Medicare and the seniors who depend on it.

NPR: Examining the Future of Medicare

But how much this would cheer the industry would depend on the price: it would be cold comfort if the price just balanced the expected value of future profits.

ECONOMIST: The Tote

We should protect those who depend on the program, and running from the financial imbalances it faces does just the opposite.

CNN: Obama, we need honest dialogue on debt

Just as it took Bill Clinton to create Clintonomics, so the new economic agenda will depend on who takes charge of the party.

ECONOMIST: The Democrats

But if Romney does lose, it is looking as though the future of the world's most important budget might just depend on who Congressional Republicans blame most for failing to win the White House: President Obama, or Mitt Romney himself.

BBC: Gauging the fiscal cliff

Burke says that it isn't just sea-life that will be highlighted on the map, but the dangers to communities that depend on reefs, be it through tourism or fishing, for their livelihood.

CNN: Could online maps save coral reefs?

Or at least flat to one decimal point, which is as many as the chancellor has previously had the temerity to mention. (He might, just, be able to say it has fallen as a share of GDP - but that, too, would depend on the number of decimal points, at which point things start to get a bit silly).

BBC: Borrowing: is it up or is it down?