This is what happened in the thirties - countries cut at the start of a fragile recovery and hence we got the depression.

He said that imposing new taxes on California's fragile economic recovery would be "financial suicide."

If interest rates increase in the next couple of months, businesses must be reassured that future policy changes will not threaten the fragile recovery.

All these companies were bound to look much more profitable in comparison, with even a fragile economic recovery.

And investors could push up long-term interest rates, threatening an already fragile recovery.

Many say job numbers have to improve first, but the bad news in home sales has spread a new gloom on the fragile recovery.

But that just shows just how fragile the recovery is.

Such cuts would occur over time so as not to undermine the fragile economic recovery.

We are experiencing a very fragile and divided recovery.

And the crisis has jarred a fragile economic recovery that was just getting underway.