Economic Shock

No one told him the banks were facing bankruptcy and the US an economic shock as severe as any since the Great Crash.

All these bail-outs, not to speak of the economic shock that will follow the financial one, are going to push up public borrowing.

First, entry can turn out to be a massive economic shock.

Agricultural policies do not charge predictably in response to each new economic shock or shift in priorities.

For France, the survival of the euro is existential. Never mind the initial, enormous economic shock that would follow its failure.

The proximate cause of such an event would probably be another economic shock.

Despite a promising start, however, the global economic shock, combined with divisions on the political right, took their toll.

While Wall Street (and the world's other stock markets) is convinced the worst of the economic shock is over, Main Street is not.

What we are witnessing goes well beyond a cyclical economic shock and a consolidation of the financial sector.

NARRATOR: The economic shock reverberated throughout all levels of Thai society.

The tests were designed to gauge the ability of major banks to withstand further economic shock.

If China suffers a macro-economic shock, some junket operators might default.

The longer this is deferred, the bigger the economic shock will be when it comes.