Containing China s Slowdown

D.C. stations. On the double.

D.C. set and punched on, skipper.

All hands squared away to decelerate.

By how much less is it expanding today, compared to, say, a couple of billion years ago?

When do we get a D.C. fix, Jerry?

And, in our globally integrated world, the slowdown in Europe will exacerbate the slowdown in the US, and vice versa.

But it is not just the slowdown that has the skeptics worked up.

Ship on course, sir. We'll reach D.C. point at 17 01.

An economic slowdown will exacerbate all our financial problems.

NEW HAVEN China s economy is slowing.

In China, the economic slowdown underway is unmistakable.

The impending global slowdown has intensified protectionist pressures.

It is subject to what Milton Friedman called long and variable lags.

Within China, the current slowdown is mostly homemade.

SHANGHAI Everyone is talking about China s economic slowdown.

And, in this kind of cauldron of moments and places and acts of deceleration,

The slowdown forecast for 2005 2006 is similar to that expected at the end of 2004, with the deterioration almost entirely concentrated in the developed countries.

The slowdown would be one tenth the size of the one the US is now enduring, and it would be largely confined to the construction sector.

Population growth has been slowing since the late 1960 s.

Libya s new leaders suffer from something worse than foot dragging.

And EDL itself is all over in a matter of seven minutes.

On the demand side, the ongoing economic slowdown in China is starting to affect companies orders and revenues, adding to the challenges stemming from the persistently sluggish US economy.

The challenge now was to avoid losing momentum and to take advantage of the lessons learnt from the case of Yugoslavia.

And now the darlings of the world economy, emerging markets, have proved unable to reverse their own slowdowns.

The financial crisis is over, but the age of general economic slowdown is only just beginning.

It would start to slow down, and then to freeze, and eventually it would crash.

BC EDL is this immense, technically challenging problem.

When investment returns to normal levels, economic growth will slow further.

A lower debt burden would certainly help Japan deal with its economic slowdown.

The former would exacerbate the country s slowdown, and neither change is in the cards.

The result as visible as it was predictable has been a sharp slowdown in economic growth.

The problem is that the permits market price has plummeted in the midst of Europe s economic slowdown.

And recovery prospects continue to depend on the emerging economies, even as they experience a sharp slowdown.

Today, such talk has been displaced by concern about what The Economist calls the great slowdown.

Previously, the government blamed the country s economic problems on the global slowdown.

The Fed pumped money into the US economy and slashed its main interest rate the Federal Funds rate from 3.5 in August 2001 to a mere 1 by mid 2003.

But the global economy is slowing down, and financial markets went into a tailspin during the summer.

The slowdown has predictably led to calls for further fiscal and monetary stimulus.

While emerging economies have out performed developed countries, both have slowed.

This phase, where the increase of the rate of growth is checked, is the deceleration phase.

China is in the throes of an identity crisis as it faces an almost inevitable economic slowdown and the need to implement a new growth model.

But China s looming slowdown is likely to be both manageable and welcome.

The emerging market slowdown ought to be a warning shot that something much worse could happen.

China successfully navigated the crisis, avoiding a significant slowdown, by ramping up public spending.