31.   Other senior executives and even outside directors borrowed tens of millions to buy shares whose price has since collapsed.

32.   Prices have collapsed.

33.   Prices would once again collapse.

34.   Problems started early in the decade when the economy took a turn for the worse and real estate prices collapsed.

35.   Property prices collapsed, leaving lenders in the lurch, and corporate profits tumbled.

36.   Some say the U.S. government is simply nervous about its own bubble economy and is looking for a scapegoat to blame when stock prices inevitably collapse.

37.   Stock prices have collapsed, venture capital has dried up and the public markets have closed their doors to those who cannot demonstrate how they will be profitable soon.

38.   That timely move was a windfall for shareholders when crude oil prices collapsed only months later.

39.   The loans went bad after land prices collapsed a few years later.

40.   The next day, as if by magic, Japanese bond futures prices collapsed while the cash market barely moved.