In the early 1980s, the economy experienced a double-dip recession, with contractions in both 1980 and '82.
The U.S. experienced a stagnant economy and rising inflation and was seen as a malaise-ridden nation in irreversible decline.
True, the Weimar economy experienced massive dislocations but by most measures the 1930s Great Depression that followed far surpassed those of the early 1920s.
For the last fiscal year ended on March 31, infrastructure output increased 2.6%, much slower than the 5.0% expansion the year before, underscoring the slowdown the local economy experienced over the past year.
Those fears gained credibility when China shocked global markets with the report Thursday that its economy experienced a surprise trade deficit in February, as the cost of imports, influenced by surging commodity prices, exceeded the value of its exports.
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Prof John Howson, who has monitored these figures for the past 10 years, said that unless the demand for graduates elsewhere in the economy experienced a downturn, it was difficult to see how all teacher training places would be filled this year.
The global economy is expanding: The global economy has experienced many dramatic changes over the last 25 years.
This far exceeds anything previously experienced by any emerging economy.
"Over the last three decades, the Jamaican economy has experienced very low economic growth, declining productivity, and reduced international competitiveness, " said Jan Kees Martijn, the head of the IMF's mission to Jamaica.
Real GDP growth during the first decade of the 21st century averaging 3.1 percent a year, just slightly beneath the long-run average of 3.3 percent real growth the U.S. economy had experienced annually since the end of the Great Depression.
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And over the past few months, the economy has experienced some tough headwinds -- from natural disasters, to spikes in gas prices, to state and local budget cuts that have cost tens of thousands of cops and firefighters and teachers their jobs.
Ever since President Richard Nixon in 1971 killed the Bretton Woods international monetary system by breaking the link between the dollar and gold, the U.S. economy has experienced slower growth, higher average inflation, higher unemployment rates, more bank failures and a series of financial crises that, in total, have reduced our income by about a third.
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We are constantly looking at ways to continue to grow the economy and create jobs, and we obviously -- for a variety of reasons, the economy slowed and experienced headwinds, and we have not been chipping away at unemployment at the rate that we need to be.
And he continues to focus on -- as he talked about during the campaign, that the decade of squeeze that the middle class experienced, even as the economy was growing, prior to the recession -- while incomes were growing on the upper end in the first decade of this century, middle class incomes were stagnating, and in some cases, shrinking.
Yet what we are seeing constitutes a kind of government intervention in the economy that America has not experienced for decades.
Even with the preference of economy accommodations, luxury lodging still experienced growth with both average and affluent consumers by 3.0% and 3.2%.
"Elsewhere, the US economy will slow from rapid growth experienced this year but is likely to remain at levels consistent with long-term trends, " BHP added.
By the mid-1980s, the world economy was up and running in a virtuous cycle that benefited the world economy and most notably Japan that experienced its golden decade.
Genuine free-market reforms in health care will slash the number of the uninsured and lead to the same kinds of innovations and efficiencies that are experienced in most of the rest of the economy.
But in a sluggish economy, like what we've experienced for the better part of a decade, consumers choose cheaper alternatives they forgo the Cadillac for the Buick or public transportation, for example.
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China too experienced some brief unrest when food prices in the growing economy jumped some 40 percent in late 2010.
Mr. Musharraf has promoted himself as an experienced politician who can save the country's faltering economy: During his nearly decadelong rule, he presided over a period of steady economic growth.
"As acting managing director, John Lipsky will provide able and experienced leadership to the fund at this critical time for the global economy, " Geithner said in a statement Thursday.
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Economic growth in the United States has slowed in recent quarters, reflecting in part the economy's transition from the rapid rate of expansion experienced over the preceding years to a more sustainable pace of growth.
We have already experienced a tremendous erosion of our manufacturing industry, a major cause of our depressed economy and high unemployment rate.
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Later that year, after returning to San Antonio, he experienced another catalyst: The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, which disrupted the economy and put a crimp in Bennett's business.
For a country whose population is still overwhelmingly rural, and which throughout its history has experienced recurrent food shortages, such an omission indicates a superficial analysis of Indonesia's economy.
The world has watched admirably at the "wonder from down under, " a seemingly recession-proof economy that avoided a downturn after the global financial crisis and that has not experienced two successive quarters of negative growth for20 years.
But less experienced operators could find themselves crushed between high food prices, growing chain competition, and an economy that may continue to falter.
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The drip, drip, drip disappearance of the major industrialists, their businesses falling like dominoes, the economy deprived of innovators who did build that, is alluded to but never viscerally experienced.
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