The economy has shrunk by 50% from 2000 to 2007.
Do you think the American economy would grow or shrink if we had a 5 percent prime rate?
Only in the third quarter of 2001 did the economy actually shrink.
Over all, the economy shrank nearly 7 percent last year.
They are all growing; our economy is shrinking by 2 per cent.
During the same time, the economy shrank by 14 percent.
It was the first time the economy shrank since the middle of 1985.
They said there was a 16 percent risk that the economy would shrink two quarters from now.
The government had already reported that the economy shrank over the summer, for the first time in eight years.
Without that spending, the economy would have shrunk by 0.2 percent.