They would have told you their industry was about to collapse because credit had completely frozen.
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It is equivalent, they say, to the predictions in 2011 and 2012 that the euro was about to collapse.
Once the government brought in a more-or-less credible safety-net, people seemed to become less afraid that Japan's financial system was about to collapse.
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Bove says in a note today that the changes in those two prices falsely suggest that the American banking industry is about to collapse.
The operation was ordered after Major General Robin Brims, commander of British ground forces in Iraq, decided the situation had reached "tip point" - when organised resistance in the city was about to collapse.
The last big issue for the G20 is what to do about the dramatic collapse in financial flows to developing and emerging economies, the largest of which are represented in the group.
No one in any of the Big 4 anywhere in the world drew attention to the collapse that was about to happen amongst so many of their major clients.
Wim Elfrink, a Dutchman living in India in charge of Cisco's booming global services business, talks about using the Internet to collapse the cost of U.S. medicine by employing Malaysian doctors or making China's urban electrical grid more efficient with an intelligent Cisco data network controlling the power.
But much as Lehman became a crisis owing to uncertainty about how its collapse would be handled, so does an Italy that delayed necessary austerity weigh on markets today due to vast exposure to its debt.
Mr. Hollande has said France has an obligation to stop advancing Islamists from bringing about Mali's collapse, and to stop militants who he said had vowed to hit French interests.
The tremor that caused the tunnel to collapse lasted about 10 seconds, the BBC's Adam Easton reports from the capital, Warsaw.
Since the housing and financial markets began to collapse, about 39% of all Americans have been foreclosed upon, unemployed, underwater on a mortgage or behind more than two months on a mortgage, says Michael Hurd, director of the Rand Corporation's Center for the Study of Aging.
In a panic, incomplete paperwork could cause the whole system to collapse amid disputes about who owns which liabilities.
Physician and insurer groups like to collapse all conversations about cost growth in health care to malpractice reform, while their opponents trivialize the role of defensive medicine.
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We also learned about how to evacuate if there was another collapse.
The first official inquiry into Tower Seven by the Federal Emergency Management Agency was unable to be definitive about what caused its collapse.
"I won't claim to have had any premonitions about the collapse, but one of the reasons I left was that we had moved so far away from fundamentals into a heady market that I wasn't really having fun anymore, " she says.
Mead Smoothing out the cycles Thanks to excess capacity and Asia's financial collapse, the price for pulp has fallen to about half its 1995 level.
The cosmos was born in the Big Bang about 13.7 billion years ago, and the first stars in the universe are thought to have lit up about 100 million years afterward, when gas finally gathered in clumps dense enough to collapse under their own gravity and ignite nuclear fusion.
Warrington coach Darryl Van de Velde admitted to being concerned about his side's latest collapse.
Of course, this is about the time that profits from manufacturing PCs started to collapse and margins become very thin indeed.
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Mr Tilney had been placed on administrative leave in July for failing to testify to before a Senate subcommittee about Enron's collapse.
Second, BAE's owners, as opposed to its board, aren't weeping about the collapse of the deal.
In October 2008, officials at the US Treasury and the New York Federal Reserve also thought that the private sector was prepared for Lehmans to go bust (after all, they'd had six months to think about it, since the authorities managed the collapse of Bear Stearns).
Prior to the economic collapse, new auto sales averaged about 16 million vehicles in the United States.
The collapse is, as of this writing, about to claim its seventh victim, Meagan Toothman, 24, a high school cheerleading coach from Cincinnati. (On Aug. 22, her organs were being harvested for transplant.) Much of it will focus on the construction of the temporary stage itself, which could not withstand a 70 mph wind gust, and fell forward onto the crowd.
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An investigation is now under way to determine the cause of the collapse that happened at about 03.00 GMT.
Investigators say they plan to fly around the disaster site in a helicopter equipped with a high-resolution camera, and they're using sophisticated computer models to recreate the bridge collapse, which may reveal clues about how it happened.
Andersen, meanwhile, continues to collapse, having announced 7, 000 layoffs Monday, about a quarter of its U.S. workforce.
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