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China could be the next country to go bust, if its headlong rush to build ever-taller skyscrapers is a guide to its future economic health.

They also argue that there was no chance that the support would have been withdrawn and Northern Rock allowed to go bust.

She allows that if JPMorgan Chase is allowed to go bust, "we might as well as get on a boat out of the country. "

Yet Iceland is special in another way: it did not issue a blanket bail-out to its banks, but rather let bits of them go bust.

When risky borrowers find it easy to get credit, they are less likely to go bust, which makes them appear less risky.

It lured customers into two of its own hedge funds that were among the first to go bust in the current crisis.

With no takers and no permission from the European Union to pump in further aid, the government would have to let the airline go bust.

It is a similar story in Mumbai, where flats are unsellable and property developers are beginning to go bust.

Policymakers in Brussels will hardly focus on another trade round when a euro member is about to go bust.

The bank now has to manage the risk of replicating the index; the provider faces the risk that the bank might go bust.

As customers go bust, companies won't get paid, leaving them with less cash with which to pay their own suppliers and workers.

Worse, the financial consequences of a shift to a world where a euro-area country can go bust are only just becoming clear.

And though he has seen booms go bust, his confidence stretches as far over the horizon as Australia's economy seems to.

Is the store with the super cheap flat screens going to go bust and thus not be there to honor the 'free' extended warranty?

Some of the gap can be attributed to fears that companies will go bust, a risk that has risen sharply with recession.

Unlike companies, countries cannot officially go bust so their creditors don't have the benefit of a clear insolvency framework.

Small manufacturers, many of which operate on wafer-thin margins, are faced with a simple choice, go up the value chain, or go bust.

Had AIG been allowed to go bust, the swaps market might well have unravelled.

Investors are wary of lending to banks for even a few months, because of the risk that they may go bust or run out of cash.

That fits the mantra jokingly muttered by HSBC types since the deal was struck: "We'll have BoCom in the end, but it'll go bust first. "

"Countries can go bust in a matter of weeks if the markets close to them, " says one rating-agency executive.

Early in 2009 it looked as though ITV, Britain's largest free-to-air commercial broadcaster, might go bust.

As China's exporters go bust by the thousand, industries from textiles to steel have been promised handouts and rebates.

start big and go bust. " And I think we used it in particular because we started really, really small; "

Yet it is not necessarily the most indebted companies, or those bought at the height of the boom, that will go bust first.

That reflects a genuine fear that the company may go bust.

When the Fed reversed itself in mid-2004, raising the federal funds rate at last, the boom was bound to go bust.

The US treasury's mistake in allowing Lehman Brothers to go bust sparked the current crisis of banking liquidity.

CIT does not have to go bust for its customers to feel pain.

"[City and provincial hospitals] are very, very expensive. If we covered the same proportion of the cost, we would go bust, " Mr Wang says.

As more companies owned by private-equity firms go bust, the industry will have to admit its sins.

"It's OK if we go bust, as long as another casino company will take over, " one person wrote in an anonymous online employee forum.

On Tuesday September 16th, a day after America's Treasury boldly let Lehman Brothers go bust, again the "Go Big" theory is being tested.

Macao will not allow casinos in the world's largest gambling market to go bust, according to the territory's chief executive.

Even fundamentally solvent countries can quickly go bust if their borrowing costs rise too fast.

If Ireland or Greece go bust, then there is already a commitment from the Germans and French to, one way or another, bail them out.

"There is a high probability that some of the directory companies will go bust, " says one analyst.

companies have warned that they will go bust before January without an emergency cash injection.

Can you imagine me explaining that to a Congressional committee if you guys go bust?

Loans to property developers are riskier and banks' profits will be hurt as developers go bust.

The chap building inferior mousetraps , however, will go bust. Many people want the benefits of technology and trade without the disruption.

Mr Rogoff maintains that at some point political pressures would have required a big firm to go bust.

Indeed, perhaps when Bosnian small farmers go bust, they will chuck their rotting eggs at their rulers.

The first points to the bigger chance that a bank will go bust over a three-month period than overnight.

After the 2008 crisis, Mr Putin should probably have let the ailing company go bust.

At some point, unless radical steps are taken, Japan's government will go bust.

Biotech start-ups would go bust were they not given work by giants with deep pockets.

If that were true, the companies the industry funds should go bust less often.

They rarely go bust because they have no overheads, and stop only when the owners are too old to carry on.

The nut industry would still go bust and the bolt industry would still expand.

"Will the duke go bust? No, " said one property insider.

Bank A, for example, worries that if it lends to Bank B it might go bust overnight, and then Bank A could lose its money.

Eventually the weaker firms will go bust or be taken over.

I pray that not too many investee companies go bust, so leading to huge job losses.

conj. But, while you wait, your firm might go bust.

Even if capital controls were brought in, some Greek banks would go bust.

There is a lot of demand, but clubs always overspend and always run into debt, but nobody lets them go bust.

The boom did go bust spectacularly.

But, while you wait, your firm might go bust.

All booms eventually go bust.

When their factories go bust, residents have no money to buy food.

However, Bank A also knows that if lends at that rate, Bank B will probably go bust anyway.

But then hardly anybody would buy our tickets and we would go bust.

let a big bank go bust "to encourage the others" .

If a car company goes into default, its suppliers may go bust, too.

Accountants and business advisers BDO Stoy Hayward predicted 5, 070 retailers will go bust in 2010, up from a forecast 4, 630 this year.

3, Have you imagined some of the ways your company might go bust ?

go bust (of a person or a business) become bankrupt; fail financially

Boom economies go bust periodically

China's troubled businesses can now legally go bust

This is most obvious for debtor countries whose banks and governments would go bust;