Sentence examples for intense recession from inspiring English sources

With most components falling steeply, the Conference Board said unemployment could rise to 9percentt from 7.2percentt as the country remains in an intense recession through spring.

The news was good, but the U.S. economy is not out of the woods".The Conference Board's indicators suggest we'll still be in an intense recession through the spring," said Ken Goldstein, the research group's economist.

Over the past decade, the supermarket industry has been buffeted by recession, intense competition, rapid developments in technology and changes to consumer spending habits.

The question, for some, is whether the chances of adding drug benefits to Medicare will be much better next year, when Congress could be confronting the brutal combination of a recession, intense budgetary constraints and the pressures of an imminent election.

The prime culprit this time has been a premium price war that grew more intense as the recession struck.

THE most intense phase of the recession began in September of 2008, when Lehman failed and markets panicked.

"If we again leave rates too low, too long, out of our uneasiness over the strength of the recovery and our intense desire to avoid recession at all costs, we are risking a repeat of past errors and the consequences they bring".

These figures signal that the most intense period of the recession is behind us, not in front of us.

Now, politicians are doing exactly what we warned about back on Jan . 13("The Most Intense Period Of The Recession Is Behind Us") when we said that "any 'stimulus' applied by government has less to do with creating the recovery than letting politicians take credit when the recovery happens".

This trend has become intense during the Great Recession which began in Sweden in late 2008.

Financial jokes that were once mainly the province of pointy-headed economists are flourishing as a popular genre, thanks to the recession and an intense longing for a national catharsis to deal with everyone's miserable personal finances.