With the economy facing its biggest slowdown since the early 1990s and facing recession, the government announced an economic stimulus package worth $10.4 billion.
Recently, the stock market has assumed a bigger slowdown than is coming, a slowdown that will cause the Fed to ease.
That would be a big slowdown for the United States, but a solid year for Europe.
The biggest slowdown since April 2009 was driven by a slowdown in petrol, gas and clothing prices.
Then came the big slowdown in work orders.
Then, as today, there had been a boom in office building construction, followed by a big slowdown.
But I can remember a number of times where patches have caused big slowdowns or had an incompatibility with one drive or another.
"These stocks are now pointing to a big slowdown in computer investment," he says.
On the other hand, budgetary expansion in countries that have suffered the biggest slowdown, like France and Germany, has had three main effects.
We've seen a big slowdown in the economy I think as a result of the crisis elsewhere.