For some, the eurozone would have collapsed without German leadership.
While house prices would have collapsed without hedge funds, the funds helped lead to the crash.
Jordan's shaky economy would probably have collapsed without these gifts of Iraqi oil.
Banks suddenly found themselves starved for cash, and some would have collapsed without central bank support.
You couldn't get on the pile where the buildings had collapsed without special permission.
"Yugoslavia would have collapsed without Milosevic, but differently, and we wouldn't have been satanized in the same way".
Since Wall Street would have collapsed without the taxpayer-financed rescue, Roubini says, Congress should have mandated a bonus-escrow system as a condition of the bailouts.
Goldman has publicly denied that it would have collapsed without government assistance, but most people on Wall Street don't believe it.
But when Hypo Real Estate was frozen out of money markets, it could not refinance its long-term obligations and would have collapsed without emergency help from the German government.
