Beatty later arrests one of Bob Harris's men, "bursting open" (or "busting open"?) a line.
If the history of investment booms and busts is a good guide, Iexpect that the bursting has only begun.
The membrane voltage, calcium ion concentration, and insulin release all have nearly identical bursting fractions for the first three categories (formation, periodic busts, and loss).
The bursting of the biggest housing and credit bubble in history has caused a banking bust that will probably turn out to be the biggest since the Depression, affecting many countries simultaneously.
It was obvious last year that America's IT bubble was bursting as the Nasdaq collapsed and dotcoms went bust, but it was not widely appreciated that this was much more than just a narrow bubble in Internet stocks.
What I remember was a bandleader as frenetic as Mick Jagger or James Brown, a singer bursting with almost self-destructive urgency, trying to bust through the buzzy indifference of the crowd.
But economists are still debating whether the Fed created the housing bubble, and thus set the stage for the current bust, when it slashed interest rates to cushion the shock of a bursting stock market bubble.
The bursting of the market bubble of the late 1990's posed a threat to the American economy comparable to the crash of 1929 and -- with the wrong policies -- the bust might have been as big.
With all of the continued fallout from the bursting of the real estate bubble, it's easy to forget about a spectacular boom and bust that occurred not in mortgages or home builders, but in solar power.
In the last 20-odd years we have witnessed the global stock market crash of 1987, the bursting of the Japanese financial and property bubble in the 1990s, the international dot-com boom and bust of a few years ago, and now the world-wide financial turmoil unleashed by the bursting of the greatest credit bubble in history.
