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• And unlike 2006, which was the height of the last bubble, there are no signs that the market is going to go bust this time around.
  — Curbed, 15 Feb. 2022
• For many companies, the choice is stark: go digital or go bust.
  — Naomi Xu Elegant, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2020
• But most startup pro sports leagues, no matter how cutting-edge, go bust within the first year or two.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Nov. 2021
• However, the risks can be real: Startups go bust at a constant rate that can leave their customers in the lurch.
  — Dotan Bar Noy, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• Vice is the second digital news venture to go bust in recent weeks.
  — Alain Sherter, CBS News, 15 May 2023
• But the tide has definitely turned away from just assuming the live music boom can’t go bust again.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Aug. 2021
• And then there's the not insignificant matter of finding a new home that has their best interest at heart and won't go bust any time soon.
  — Mina Harder, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2021
• The investments could lose value and the portfolio companies could all go bust.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2022
• And even if the trust-fund exhaustion date arrives around 2035 as predicted with no improvements, the system won’t go bust.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2021
• Until the booms go bust and the environmental bill comes due, hiring and pay often soar as the gas industry expands.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• Until the booms go bust and the environmental bill comes due, hiring and pay often soar as the gas industry expands.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• Eye-watering prices have caused 29 smaller energy suppliers in the UK to go bust since last summer.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 24 Aug. 2022
• The new regulations forced a number of bank mergers and saw many small regional banks quietly go bust.
  — Anne Stevenson-Yang, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
• Temporary lay-offs could become permanent as firms go bust.
  — The Economist, 4 June 2020
• Indeed, the loans are mostly made to junky, highly leveraged companies, and sometimes junky companies go bust.
  — William Baldwin, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2022
• As that 2020 housing boom begins to go bust, those who managed to close on a home in the crush of competition fed by rock-bottom mortgage rates should count themselves extremely lucky.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 3 Nov. 2022
• Macron and his government argue the law is essential to ensure that France’s generous pension system does not go bust.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 13 Apr. 2023
• Generally, the maneuver is risky—one lousy curveball and the whole population might go bust—but handy for stowaways: A single female can go anywhere and found her own outpost of clones.
  — Eric Boodman, Wired, 29 May 2021
• If unemployment persists and companies go bust, as many economists expect, many more loans will sour.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• Like most actors, Ms. Dundas had been humbled by the endless hustle and disappointment of auditions, the flopping of can’t-miss hits, seeing other actors go bust.
  — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
• This explains how an asset class once worth roughly $3 trillion could lose 72% of its value, and prominent intermediaries could go bust, with no discernible spillovers to the financial system.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
• Banks may lend to companies that go bust because of fires or floods, or because green regulations eventually upend their business models.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 19 Feb. 2022
• That's no different from professional skiers who wipe out in major races or inventors whose early aspirations go bust.
  — Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 21 June 2021
• Trump’s case Trump’s case involved 11 years of financial statements with values based on disputed and sometimes outright false descriptions of properties used as collateral should his loans go bust.
  — Bernard Condon, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2024
• The tech sector benefited from the low-interest rate environment, experts said, noting the relative ease with which banks and venture firms could finance ambitious startups despite knowing that many of them would go bust.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 13 Apr. 2023
• In any event, the company started making Model 3s in a tent, and began selling enough cars to attract an ultra-enthusiastic following in the stock market, giving Musk sufficient capital to put to rest any idea that the company might go bust.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2020
• Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, the second-largest bank failure in American history, shows how quickly a seemingly solid institution can go bust.
  — Geoffrey Rogow, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2023
• Temporary layoffs could become permanent as employers go bust.
  — The Economist, 2 June 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024