They also signaled further rate cuts were ahead, saying excessive economic weakness rather than inflation posed the pre-eminent risk to the economy in coming months.

The recent tension has posed a threat to the economy, which is heavily dependent on foreign investors already jittery about political unrest.

Three months later, Bernanke had begun to grasp that he and others underestimated the risk housing posed to the economy.

For those families, financial problems have escalated, and they may pose some collective risks to the economy.

Three years ago there was inadequate awareness of the threat posed to the economy by a perilously unstable banking system.

The United States was not the only wealthy country to be singled out for the threat it posed to the global economy.

Do they pose a threat to the economy?

Climate change poses one of the most serious threats not only to the environment, but to the economy and society as well.

Vested interests pose a risk to the dynamic economy we want to see in Europe.

However it is closed, the medium-term deficit does not appear to pose a huge threat to the American economy.