Sentences with phrase «victims of the financial collapse»

But many, many more were victims of the financial collapse brought on by this mortgage madness, including those who lost their jobs in downsizing, or whose wages were reduced to retain their employment, or whose spouses were laid off in the same cutback frenzy.

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So let's add that to the Zika virus, the open sewer of a harbour where the sailors and triathletes will compete, the street crime that has already made a victim of an Australian para-athlete and the financial and political chaos that includes a president facing impeachment, many other politicians facing indictments and the declaration of a «state of public calamity» in Rio de Janeiro, with a top state official adding that it is on the verge of «social collapse.»

In the turmoil of the financial sector collapse, which has almost destroyed the Icelandic economy, Iceland was not an innocent or gullible victim.