In the early 20th century Motion Picture Patents Co. held immense sway in the film business until it was busted up by antitrust lawyers.
In Wisconsin, it was busted for egregiously inaccurate voting information.
Now, Silk Road is back and promises to provide the same level of reliable service it did before it was busted.
Greece will get its next tranche of loans in November, even though it is bust and will miss its deficit-reduction targets.
It is bust, and cannot afford to salvage its oversized and insolvent banks (see article).
Of course it's bust," he said.
"The assumption is that it's bust," said one analyst.
"Investment banking is a boom and bust business, and right now it's bust," said Brian Foran, a senior analyst at Nomura Securities International.
And it is the very technocrats in charge of the system who are slowly, reluctantly admitting that it is bust.
By 2014 he could read the tea-leaves: Scottish devolution, the NHS and social care, skills, criminal justice, he looks at it all and sees it is bust".
