Some American experts continue to sound pessimistic about arresting the economic slide.

The economic slide of 2001 is nowhere near as severe, and may never become so.

In 2007 and 2008, the American economy found itself once again teetering on the edge of another economic slide.

The report provides further evidence of the state's economic slide.

But the downward economic slide has come hard and fast, particularly since last year.

But what if the economic slide can be halted?

With this decline in spiritual and political influence has come an economic slide.

When the factories closed or moved south, the region began a long economic slide from which it is still seeking to rebound.

Just as the regulations he was putting into effect would not be enough to stem the tsunami of the economic slide.

I think that we need to make every effort to halt the economic slide.