Instead, the Greek economy will shrink by 6 .

A bank without a viable business model does not shrink gradually and then disappear.

The Portuguese economy is now expected to contract by 1 in 2013.

In fact, it looks certain to shrink this year by 0.2 .

For instance, any space retracts to a point in the obvious way (the constant map yields a retraction).

And, given that this year s growth has largely already occurred, Germany s economy has now plateaued and could even be contracting.

The sweet but tangy flavor made my nose wrinkle, and the drippy pulp reminded me of the innards of a human heart or at least how I imagined they look.

Thus, when the inflows stopped at the onset of the financial crisis, it became inevitable that GDP would contract by double digit percentages.

Most analysts forecast that GDP will contract in the first half of 2008 and recover in the second half of the year.

Likewise, the IMF now predicts that the European economy will be 7.8 smaller in 2015 than it thought just two years ago.

CAMBRIDGE The world economy will shrink this year for the first time since 1945, and some economists worry that the current crisis could spell the beginning of the end of globalization.

Eventually the core is compressed enough to start helium fusion, and the star now gradually shrinks in radius and its surface temperature increases.

Two million jobs disappeared in the last four months alone. The housing market continues to deteriorate. America s GDP is contracting at an almost unprecedented rate.

Instead, GDP has collapsed, with the Spanish and Italian economies expected to contract by close to 2 this year.

If what remains after the outer atmosphere has been shed is less than 1.4 , it shrinks to a relatively tiny object about the size of Earth, known as a white dwarf.

The economy is contracting so much that the debt GDP ratio is actually increasing, and the actual deficit is improving only marginally, because government revenues are falling along with GDP.

By mid century, Japan s population could shrink by 30 unless it attracts 17 million immigrants a hard task in a country historically resistant to immigration.

Two million jobs disappeared in the last four months alone. The housing market continues to deteriorate. America s GDP is contracting at an almost unprecedented rate.

The International Monetary Fund s latest forecast predicts that the world s advanced economies will contract 0.3 in 2009 the first such shrinkage since the end of World War II.

With the collapse in the price of oil since then, the economy has gone into a tailspin GDP is contracting at a record pace, inflation is in excess of 200 , the currency has plunged to less than 10 of its previous value, and massive shortages have emerged.

Russia s economy has already been reeling under Western sanctions imposed in response to the Kremlin s annexation of Crimea and continued aggression in eastern Ukraine. Output is expected to shrink by almost 4 this year, and the country s credit ratings have been reduced to junk or near junk status.

The US current account deficit and the Asian surplus will shrink.

Likewise, the IMF now predicts that the European economy will be 7.8 smaller in 2015 than it thought just two years ago. Some forecasters are more pessimistic than others (the OBR has a particularly sunny disposition), but no one, it seems, has been pessimistic enough.

The April 2010 WEO forecast a UK annual growth rate of nearly 3 in 2012 2013 instead, GDP is likely to contract this year and increase by roughly 1 next year.