stagnation

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The unrest was triggered by a ban on social media but fuelled by anger against corruption, unemployment and economic stagnation.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

Higher oil prices would help ease its fiscal pressure and potentially pull its economy back from a period of stagnation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

With the hands of central banks tied, investors are worried about the risk of stagflation -- a period of economic stagnation and inflation -- such as what happened after the first oil shock in 1973.

From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026

And they did during the 1970s, an era of repeated energy crises and endemic “stagflation,” meaning economic stagnation combined with inflation.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 6, 2026

Yet, once those ideas were challenged, progress was breathtakingly rapid—after fifteen centuries of stagnation, there have been fewer than another five centuries from the time of Copernicus to the present day.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin