death spiral

At this point it's hard to see how the nation can escape from this death spiral into default.

The city seems to be locked in a death spiral.

Recent events, above all the austerity death spiral in Europe, have dramatically illustrated the truth of Fisher's insight.

When banking gurus like Mike Mayo and Meredith Whitney screamed 'sell the banks, ' the Dow reflexively fell into a death spiral.

With Chrysler's market share in a death spiral, Fiat will finally grasp that this dud is exactly that - a dud.

And the result, says the company, is a drastically worsening risk pool: in effect, a death spiral.

The Arctic Ocean's sea ice is in a "death spiral" due to rising temperatures, scientists said in 2008.

Even so, California's death spiral makes nonsense of all the main arguments against comprehensive health reform.

That could lead to French bonds losing some of their value, in a never-ending "death spiral, " as one analyst termed it.

The result would be a death spiral for private insurance.

The alternative is to join the PC industry in a long death spiral into irrelevance.

It was a complete death spiral and we had to stop it.

Jobs arrested Apple's slow death spiral and even put some oomph back into the pioneering computer firm he helped found.

Of course, the economy would still stink, but the death spiral we are in would end.

A death spiral had begun.

So let's call it the death spiral of negativity.

Russia's production of oil and gas is declining, and its population is in a demographic death-spiral;