Telecom spending plunged when the bubble burst but is showing signs of a rebound.
Anglo suffered the largest corporate loss in the history of the country when the bubble burst.
But that strategy led to overcapacity in the 1990s when the bubble burst, plunging Japan into recession.
But when the bubble burst in 2008, the Fed had to step in to prop up the banks.
When the bubble burst, the banks got in trouble and government revenue cratered.
When the bubble burst, many homes were abandoned and average home prices turned south as can be seen in the following chart.
Such attributes made it stodgy-looking in the Internet mania of the late 1990s but enabled it to breeze by go-go shop Janus when the bubble burst.
The horrific average and top decile returns in the exit vintages of 2001-2003 represent lots of the companies that got flushed out when the bubble burst.
When the bubble burst, their shares were quickly worth less (or, in some cases worthless), but they still owed the tax on gains they never realized.
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When the bubble burst in 1990, bad debts brought the banking system close to collapse and the nation fell into a decade of recession and deflation.
Comerica began amassing its stake in Munder Capital in the 1990s and rode a wave of success during the tech bubble, only to get burned by writedowns when the bubble burst.
The record levels of risk undertaken by financial institutions, home-buyers, and investors, particularly in sub-prime mortgages and other forms of creative financing, made for a collapse of crisis proportions when the bubble burst.
Many schools saw applications stagnate during the heady days of the late 90s dot-com boom, only for demand to soar when the bubble burst and budding tycoons decided they could safely step away from the business cauldron for a while to improve their skills.
MBIA, and its peers like Ambac Financial Group, traditionally operated in the somewhat routine business of insuring municipal bonds but expanded into the mortgage market as the housing boom swelled and began writing insurance on mortgage-related instruments that turned sour en masse when the bubble burst.
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For those who have lost count of the institutions that were pulverised by the financial crisis, Anglo Irish was an erstwhile star of Ireland's banking scene, which rose quickly from inauspicious roots during Ireland's heady growth in the 1990s, only to rack up enormous property-related losses when the bubble burst.
When the housing bubble burst the GSEs were left holding billions of dollars in mortgages that ended up defaulting.
But when the housing bubble burst last year, the booming Texas economy began to falter.
The company suffered when the technology bubble burst, dropping out of the FTSE 100 and having to issue a profit warning in 2001.
The resulting easy money and record low interest rates continuing for years further pumped up the housing bubble, causing financial chaos when the bubble inevitably burst.
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The Florida housing market was one of the worst hit when the property bubble burst in 2008.
When the mortgage bubble burst, those firms went bust right along with it.
The construction industry was hit brutally hard when the housing bubble burst.
"The retail investor is quite a bit more sophisticated than they were, say, 10 years ago when the tech bubble burst, " she said.
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But this gamble can backfire, as it did for New Jersey, which issued pension bonds in 1997 and suffered when the technology bubble burst.
When the technology bubble burst, pension funds were left with worthless stakes in private-equity deals that had gone sour, on top of the damage done by tumbling stockmarkets.
When the bubble does burst, the consequences will be severe.
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