We got some Mexicans for a while before their economy tanked.

People thought the economy had tanked and that things were going to get worse, not better.

With travel and trade down, our economy tanked, but I don't know why anyone would think pirates were the right answer.

They certainly wasted money on some things, but the reason the economy tanked was not overspending.

The most interesting part of the story, however, is why the Japanese economy tanked.

Bush was president, the economy was tanking and we'd just finished a war with Iraq.

Bush Senior fumbled because he seemed too obsessed with foreign policy at a time when the economy was tanking.

But the economy is not actually tanking at the moment, and that is felt to be good news.

The reason the economy has tanked is because of the lack of confidence in the banking system.

A military coup marred the 1990's, and then the economy tanked.