Sentence examples for value crashed from inspiring English sources

Goldman, famously, made a lot of money selling securities backed by subprime mortgages — then made a lot more money by selling mortgage-backed securities short, just before their value crashed.

The word "bitcoin" (it's coin made of bits, geddit?) spiked in media reporting this spring when its value crashed, and then again more recently when IT worker James Howells confessed that he had thrown away a hard drive containing £4m worth of bitcoins, which now languishes somewhere in a Newport landfill, guarded by a satisfied virtual Smaug.

When the study's findings proved unfavorable, the company's stock value crashed, further restricting funding.

The handle of the laptop case wasn't strong enough, they explain, and had sent thousands of years of history – an object of huge value – crashing to the floor.

That "hard work" included engineering a slump in sales and profits that has seen the company's stock market value crash from £1.5bn to just £400m.

He pledged to improve the investment environment, amend the country's tax codes, and work to stabilize the ruble, whose value has crashed and risen since Soviet times — first evaporating many citizens' savings and recently spurring inflation and causing unease about escalating costs of living.

Property values had crashed, as the depopulated land vastly exceeded tenants.

Mr. Bush put two wars "on a credit card," led the country away "from our values" and "crashed the economy".

Norton states that the difficulties in reporting on the group cause most writers, including herself, to focus on the "small groups of hackers who stole the limelight from a legion, defied their values, and crashed violently into the law" rather than "Anonymous's sea of voices, all experimenting with new ways of being in the world".

In these particularly precarious and nerve-wracking times of Wall Street meltdowns, plummeting portfolios, free-falling 401Ks, decreased property value, companies crashing, and a $700 billion Bail Out - all happening within the span of a few days - some of us may find ourselves reaching for the tried and true, all time feel-better fix - food, food and more food!

'Don't lip-sync and drive' the video then warns after a fairly high production-value crash, as onlookers rush to the car.