In principle, each of these has two potent recession-fighting tools at its disposal.
But analysts now consider inflation a far less potent threat than recession.
If foreign investors choose to "double down" and stay invested in the dollar, U.S. yields won't rise as much as Soros predicts, and the Fed's interest rate cuts may remain potent, limiting the damage a recession may cause.
Funeral poverty is an unexpectedly potent indicator of the combined impact of recession, austerity, low wages and the insecure job market.
Failure to mend a broken financial system quickly means a longer recession; it also renders fiscal stimulus much less potent.
But when the story of the Great Recession is remembered, Ireland will offer the most potent cautionary tale.
In a particularly potent double-whammy, the city must deal with a deep recession and increased competition from neighboring states that offer gambling, including Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New York.
A breakdown of the euro would be disastrous — sending a potent shock through already jittery financial markets — deepening and extending this worldwide recession.
One potent tool cities have to strengthen and expand the middle class is their own budgets which, even battered by the recession, still offer opportunities to channel existing spending in ways that promote the creation of solid, middle class jobs.
In 1984, when Heywood joined, the Treasury was particularly potent, with a self-confident new chancellor, Nigel Lawson, and the British economy finally beginning to boom again after the recessions of the 1970s and early 80s.
