But this result is driven by the "big five" blow-ups (among them the implosion of Japan's banking system in the 1990s).
The cryptocurrency, which had zipped north of $1,000 in late 2013, fell under the $400 mark this year on lessened media interest and the implosion of Mt.Gox, an exchange, among other issues.
Even when this music knowingly crumbled — which it did, in a free piece toward the middle of the second set, with the guitarist Jeff Parker (of Tortoise, another among-and-between band) leading the implosion — the drumming had a plan.
Furthermore, Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers both bested expectations for quarterly earnings figures, painting a picture of strength among investment banks, despite the implosion of Bear Stearns.
Among the casualties of S.D.S.'s implosion was a former president, Carl Oglesby, who was pushed out of the organization in 1969, accused of being a "hopeless bourgeois liberal" and possibly a government agent.
Perhaps its time for a reconsideration: This month marks 10 years since the technology bubble peaked, and among the few who warned of the coming implosion were speculators who had targeted tech stocks.
Here in Slavyanka, or Slavic village, a European outpost 50 miles north of the North Korean border, the Slavic population implosion is as clear as roadside meadows where cows graze among the concrete shells of abandoned houses.
The horror thriller "Night Watch," produced by Channel One, in 2004, was among the first big-budget, Hollywood-style productions after the implosion of the Soviet film industry.
