Stagnant and Paralyzed

And what's crazy there's a recession going on, even in Dubai, but you wouldn't know by the prices.

Political, social, and economic life stagnated.

The world economy is in recession.

China s credit binge is turning into a bust.

Greece right over here is in a fairly severe recession.

And at this point, you start having a stalemate near the 38th parallel so.. you start having a stalemate across this border right over there.

Afterward, capital flows to developing countries stagnated.

We do not think that this points to a double dip recession.

But how are they going to do it? You're in a recession.

Blood stasis syndrome, or blood stagnation (Chinese Xue Yu ) is an important underlying pathology of many disease processes according to traditional Chinese medicine.

Under two plausible scenarios both concerning China the unwinding of global imbalances could cause regional if not global depression.

Why Small Booms Cause Big Busts

There are also now two reasons to fear a double dip recession.

Cheap imports ameliorate the effects of wage stagnation.

Life expectancy has stagnated and poverty has increased.

The world economy is moving out of a long drawn out stagnation.

Frighteningly, the new Japanese government is still trying to deal with the aftermath of the country s two decade old property bust.

Not to be involved would result in the loss of opportunities and the stagnation of one apos s national economy.

And even more, it might drive Greece into a bigger recession.

That Louis Xang, or whatever, is in a slump after his wife died.

73 UNSCO contribution to report, 23 December 2004, citing World Bank, Stagnation or Revival?, p. 6.

If that were to happen quickly, total spending could decline, pushing the economy into a double dip recession.

In the early 1990 s, Sweden suffered a huge recession precipitated by a housing bubble and a banking crisis.

93 UNSCO contribution to report, 23 December 2004, citing World Bank, Stagnation or Revival?, p. 7.

Income there stayed stagnant, as it zoomed ahead in the rest of the world.

We are poised for progress. Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known, the stock market has come roaring back.

There's a huge slack in that system with the right pricing we can undo that.

The first flaw is that the spending reductions are badly timed coming as they do when the US economy is weak, they risk triggering another recession.

So a lot of economists look at declining population and expect to see stagnation, maybe depression.

The increase in some asset prices may, moreover, lead to a W shaped double dip recession.

The everyday consequence for the middle class is a stagnant paycheck and growing job insecurity.

That will lead to double dip recession, even larger fiscal deficits, and runaway debt.

Right now, the global economy is suffering a grand mal seizure of slack demand and high unemployment.

In fact, China is emerging in reasonably good shape from yet another global slump.

65 Ibid., citing World Bank, Stagnation or Revival?, p. 42.

The phrase Great Recession creates the impression that the economy is following the contours of a typical recession, only more severe something like a really bad cold.

But the answer is not to let a collapse in the world s car industry fuel a deeper recession.

Stagnating official export activity, due in part to the sanctions on timber exports

And they did it when the US was already slumping into a recession after the dot com bubble had burst.

With uncertainty plaguing Europe s finances and China slowing, the last thing the global economy needs is a stagnant or shrinking US economy.

And, yes, there will probably be another rash of financial crises perhaps in Central Europe, which now looks like Asia did before its 1997 crisis.

Yes, the US will experience a decline in income and a sharp rise in unemployment, lowering the rest of the world s exports to the US. But many other parts of the world that still grow.

This is especially true now, given that much of the developed world is in the midst of a painful recession.

That, in turn, allows Gazprom to boost its profitability through price increases, despite stagnant production.