Sentence examples for permanent slump from inspiring English sources

SPAIN may soon be faced with two options, says UPF's Mr Mas-Colell: a permanent slump or economic reform.

That would provide long-sought relief for sellers but it could keep many potential buyers out of the market and put sales in a permanent slump.

But you're right, the culture of Wall Street seems impervious to everything — even the biggest crisis in its modern history, one that has the national economy in a seemingly permanent slump.

With its share of that trillion-dollar national security budget, its many agencies and outfits have been bolstered even as the general economy descended into a seemingly permanent slump.

Until these issues are tackled and the great concentrations of wealth, income and power are broken up, the global economy will continue to struggle to recover, with much of the world locked into near-permanent slump.

The experience of Japan demonstrates that in the aftermath of asset-price busts, when households and firms are seeking to pay down their debts, the prolonged maintenance of monetary and fiscal stimulus is necessary to prevent a semi-permanent slump.

However some would say it is almost irrelevant whether the ECB finally goes for QE (almost but not completely irrelevant), simply because that is all that's left for the central bank, in its mission to ward off a Japanese style semi-permanent slump.

But when it comes to dealing with recessions, the European authorities have got things badly wrong, and they have condemned the continent to a semi-permanent state of slump.

If the productivity slump is permanent, there is less scope for the economy to shoulder its debts and to grow without sparking a burst of high inflation.Yet a recent paper by Bill Martin and Robert Rowthorn of Cambridge University cautions against the notion that workers have suddenly become less capable.

During the debate over fiscal stimulus, one line you heard over and over again was the claim that spending programs designed to fight the slump would inevitably become permanent fixtures.

Eventually with the Nets and the Knicks, his scowl and glare became as permanent as tattoos, as familiar as his slumped shoulders and the disgusted headshakes he aimed at teammates and coaches.