For the second time in less than four years, Asia is being hit with a major external demand shock.

The negative shock adversely impacts the non tradable sector, which is large (roughly two thirds of an advanced economy) and wholly dependent on domestic demand.

Hit by a monstrous external demand shock that sent world trade tumbling by a record 10.5 in 2009, China s export led growth quickly went from boom to bust.

The Boehner Shock

Shock and Panic

Policymakers should be wary of imposing a regulatory shock simultaneously with a fiscal shock.

I was in shock.

Layla watched in shock.

It was such a shock.

It was such a shock.

The Nixon Shock Doctrine Revisited

The World s Biggest Shock Absorber

When faced with a shortfall of demand whether owing to an external shock or to an internal adjustment, such as the housing market correction China can tweak its urbanization led investment requirements accordingly.

By providing extra liquidity, central banks merely reduce the amount of money withdrawn from expenditure on goods and services, which mitigates, but does not reverse, the negative demand shock that hit the world economy.

From Shock Therapy to Sleep Therapy

Noha's shock did not stop there..

I was in shock, she says.

Shock is a transient physical excitation.

Indeed, the short, sharp shock that China absorbed from the financial crisis has proven that its economic growth still depends on consumer demand in America, Europe, and Japan and will for some time to come.

Provided that there is no recurrence of the severe external demand shock of 2008 a likely outcome unless Europe implodes there is good reason to hope for a soft landing to around 8 GDP growth.

So a negative domestic demand shock need not completely constrain the roughly one third of the Italian economy that is tradable and thus could grow and generate employment if the competiveness parameters were reset quickly.

Smaller shock angles are associated with higher upstream Mach numbers, and the special case where the shock wave is at 90 to the oncoming flow (Normal shock), is associated with a Mach number of one.

Layla's death left the community in shock.

Sami got the shock of his life.

All this is a rude shock for Europe.

After the shock, analysis took place. Zeinobia explains

Such daring public photographs may shock the public.

When the earth is shaken with a shock .

When the earth is shaken with a shock

When the earth is shaken with a shock .

When the earth is shaken with a shock

Hit by a second external demand shock in three years first, America s subprime crisis, and now Europe s sovereign debt crisis any outbreak of internal political instability would pose a far greater threat than might otherwise be the case.

And when I saw it and yet, through the shock, the terrible shock, and the terrible explosion in our lives, literally, we were not vengeful.

Defective growth models in advanced countries, based on excess credit and domestic aggregate demand (and complicated by structural flaws and limited adjustment mechanisms in Europe), led to instability, a crisis, and a large negative shock to the real economy.

Cookie has a shock when she visits the doctor

The potential sources of such a shock are legion.

And the lack of shock shocks me even more...

At first that was a real shock to me.

In fact, the ministry has used its informational campaign to shape public discussion, convincing scholars, business economists, and the general public to be more concerned about keeping the budget deficit under control than about the effects of a negative demand shock.

To derail emerging economies growth momentum at this stage probably would require either an additional major demand shock from the advanced economies, or some kind of failure in China s leadership transition that impedes systemic reform and affects the country s growth.

Netizens expressed their anger, shock and sense of déja vu.

I said, What? I was in a very big shock.

It's like electrical shock that releases the chemicals from these synapses.

It somehow survived the post Soviet shock, and has now recovered.

Fortunately, several emerging economies continue to have cushions and shock absorbers.