If the economy slips back into recession, banks could really be hurt.

Now when the economy slips into recession, Federal spending helps break the fall.

To specialists, these numbers suggest that the economy is slipping back into recession.

"This reduces the chance of the economy slipping into recession."

Even the Japanese economy, the world's second largest, has slipped into recession this year.

Inevitably, the economy will either speed up or slip into recession.

None of this means that the economy cannot slip into recession.

But they have become scarcer since the industry slipped into recession in 1989.

And only 11 percent considered it likely that the economy will slip back into recession in the next 12 months.

There is an increasing danger that the global economy will slip back into recession.