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Example sentences for: slump

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Because higher desired savings will lead to an economic slump, which will reduce income and also reduce investment demand; since in the end savings and investment are always equal, the total volume of savings must actually fall!
And now the country faces what is basically a garden-variety recession, the sort of thing that happens to every economy now and then--except that unlike the United States, or even a similar-sized First World country such as Australia, it cannot try to cushion the slump by lowering interest rates and pushing more money into the system.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the semiconductor business--seriously affected by the Asian crisis, a production glut and the advent of the $1,000 PC--is in a global slump, and that American manufacturers are certainly taking their share of the hits.
In particular, if investment demand should fall for whatever reason--such as, say, a stock-market crash--the result would be an economy-wide slump.
Real recovery depends on regional political stability, the continued strength of the export-absorbing American economy, and Japan's ability to bounce back from its slump.