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Example sentences for: recession

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The more sensible advocates of currency boards and, if necessary, dollarization, have always based their views less on hope than on fear--fear that any attempt to fight a recession by devaluing would lead instead to a surge in inflation and a financial collapse.
The trouble was that all that austerity was a hard sell politically--especially because the economy was going into a nasty recession thanks to those high interest rates.
Japan must reform its banks and maintain loose fiscal and monetary policy (even though that means a cheapened yen), or the rest of the world will soon feel the aftershocks of its recession.
By the way, USAT says a survey it took among 49 top economists rates the chances of a U.S. recession next year as one in four.
Thanks in large part to the new understanding of governments that increasing interest rates, raising taxes, and cutting spending in a recession is a bad idea, the first postwar generation was one of near-full employment in most Western countries.