And, now that those stimulus programs are coming to an end, there is a danger that the economy will slide back into slow growth or even recession.

More broadly, given Europe s slide into recession and only a slow rise in world trade volume, renewed growth and stronger import demand in Japan would support global recovery.

Larry Summers, who was then Deputy Secretary of the United States Treasury, repeatedly warned the Japanese government that if it proceeded with a scheduled consumption tax hike, Japan s economy would slide back into recession.

If policymakers go slow on raising rates to encourage faster economic recovery, they risk causing the mother of all asset bubbles, eventually leading to a bust, another massive financial crisis, and a rapid slide into recession.

Moreover, if peace prevents a slide into war, Hezbollah has another problem.

In the countryside, people watched political slide shows late into the night.

A premature exit from conflict areas courts a disastrous slide back into conflict.

Circuit breakers are in place nowadays to prevent a 1929 style slide into disaster.

Samuelson was half right Governments do know how to stop a slide into another Great Depression.

Draghi reversed the euro s slide into oblivion by promising potentially unlimited purchases of member governments bonds.

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Firstly, they must control their military commanders and reverse the slide into predatory warlordism and criminal behaviour.

That may prevent the world economy from falling into recession.

Now, the slide show. I update the slide show every time I give it.

Our attention was focused on preventing recession from turning into depression.

I have one slide on my other life, the computer life, and that's the slide here.

Infectious diseases neither respect national borders nor conveniently follow economies into recession.

And Japan is already slipping back into recession because of the earthquake.

But that forecast assumes continued growth, whereas France is slipping into recession.

Paul Debevec So, if we break that down into layers, here's that diffuse component we saw in the first slide.

Addressing those long term needs is vital if we are to prevent a recurrence or a slide back into conflict.

The user, typically a child, climbs to the top of the slide via a ladder or stairs and sits down on the top of the slide and slides down the slide.

The first is that stimulus packages around the world arrested the slide into depression, and may have started a modest recovery.

Then the inevitable recession and stock market collapse plunges the state into crisis.

If the US goes into recession, the acrimony will get a lot worse.

Taiwan s economy fell into a technical recession in the fourth quarter of 2011.

CA Next slide so who's that?

The bubble has now burst, and these economies are heading into a steep recession.

Growth will slow, with Europe and or America possibly even slipping back into recession.

The second pathology was decisive in turning a bad recession into the Great Depression.

MUNICH With the United States teetering into recession, the global economic boom has ended.

A US in recession would no longer serve as the world s importer of last resort, which might send the rest of the world into recession as well.

And if he fails? The Middle East will continue its slide into mayhem perversely befitting the upcoming centenary of World War I s outbreak.

The resulting growth spurt led to inflation, especially because the world did not slide into a second Great Depression, as was originally feared.

The Fed s first priority is to try to keep the American economy from dropping too far below full employment, and to try and avoid a US meltdown contaminating other economies. If employment and incomes in America crash, US demand for imports crashes and not just America but the whole world will slide into recession.

And any additional shock could tip this unstable global economy back into full fledged recession.

Indeed, when today s Europeans peer into the future, they see only prolonged recession and austerity.

The big southern European countries, Spain and Italy, battered by austerity, are spiraling into recession.

Whenever an economy goes into recession, deficits appear, as tax revenues fall faster than expenditures.

For all of China s long term structural problems, it is not exactly slipping into recession.

The sub prime crisis in the early summer of 2007 developed first into a financial crisis and ultimately into a recession.

Or the US could slip into recession (though modest growth is certainly the central scenario nowadays).

They know that this outcome could well throw the US and the world back into recession.

COPENHAGEN With a worldwide recession advancing, strong action on global warming has been thrown into jeopardy.

Bill Strickland makes change with a slide show