shrinkage

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The shrinkage follows lackluster economic performance in 2025, which plummeted the company’s shares by 25% in February.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

Despite potential equity valuation shrinkage for software firms, Golub anticipates they will continue to repay lenders.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

Importantly, the increased risk was not explained by overall brain shrinkage or damage to white matter.

From Science Daily • Jan. 15, 2026

The upshot is that officials eventually must decide when to resume purchases of securities to prevent further passive shrinkage of reserves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

Various explanations have been given of this entire breaking down of the frame-work of society, but it was certainly coincident with a shrinkage in the volume of money, which was also without historical parallel.

From Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 by Jones, John P. (John Percival)