La Crise Economique Flashcards

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La crise économique

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The economic outlook

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Optimiste
Pessimiste

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Rosy
Bleak

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Années de croissance

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Go-go years

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Les défaillances d’une politique

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The failings of a policy

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Être en surchauffe

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To overheat

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Être dans une mauvaise passe

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To be in a bad way

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Être ébranlé par une crise

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To be shaken by a crisis

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Une économie à la traîne

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A lagging economy

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Une économie en récession

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A flaccid economy

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Ralentir l’économie

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To set back the economy

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Asphyxier l’économie

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To strangle the economy

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Tensions économiques

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Economic stains

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Une baisse de l’activité économique

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An economic slide

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La stagnation économique

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Economic slack

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Conduire (à une récession)

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To steer (into a recession)

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Être au bord de

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To be poised on the edge of

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Traverser une grave récession

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To suffer a deep recession

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Sortir d’une récession

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To steer out of a recession

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Être frappé par une dépression

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To be hit by a depression

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Une crise

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A crisis, a bust, a crunch

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La gravité / l’ampleur d’une crise

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The depth / the scope of a crisis

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S’effondrer
Un krach

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To crash, to slump, to collapse
A crash

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Être à la traîne
Un trainard

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To lag
A laggard

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Stagner

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To stagnate

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Un ralentissement

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A slowdown, a slack

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Une tendance à la baisse

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A downtrend

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Ralentir

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To slacken

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Une chute des prix

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A price drop

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Dégringoler

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To plummet

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S’aggraver

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To worsen

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Toucher le fond

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To strike bottom

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Face a la crise

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Coping with the crisis

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Les mesures d’austérité

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Austerity measures

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Exiger des mesures d’austérité

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To call for austerity

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Imposer une solution douloureuse à

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To impose a painful solution to

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Réduire radicalement

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To slash

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Traverser des jours difficiles

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To suffer hard times

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Le bon vieux temps

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The good old days

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La politique monétaire

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Monetary policy

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Dévaluer

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To devaluate

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Bloquer les salaire

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To freeze wages

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Freiner la demande

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To dampen demand

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La production

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The production, the output

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Déclin de la productivité

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Declining productivity

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Une diminution de la production

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A shrinkage in output

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Chute des prix de l’immobilier

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Plummeting real estate prices

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Croissance zéro

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Zero growth

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Aspirer à retrouver la croissance

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To hanker after growth

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La pénurie

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The scarcity, the shortage, the paucity

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Nourriture de base

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Staple diet

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Disette

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Paucity, dearth

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Peu abondant, maigre

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Scanty

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Le mécontentement

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The unrest

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S’en prendre à

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To rail against

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Un bouc émissaire

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A scapegoat, a whipping boy

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Éviter une émeute

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To head off a riot

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La famine

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The starvation

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La reprise économique

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The economic recovery

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Trouver des remèdes

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To devise remedies

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S’attaquer aux problèmes de

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To address the basic problems of

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Un plan de sauvetage

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A rescue scenario

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Relancer une économie

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To reflate an economy

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Une politique de relance

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A reflationary policy

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Lancer une politique de reprise

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To launch a policy of recovery

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Surmonter la crise

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To weather the storm

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Une reprise

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An upturn, a pick up

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S’en sortir

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To pull through

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Venir à bout de

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To get the better of

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Prospérer

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To thrive

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Remettre l’économie sur pied

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To turn the economy around

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Encourager l’investissement

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To spur investment

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Élever le niveau de vie

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To lift the living standards

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Faire baisse le chômage

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To bring down unemployment

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Une période d’expansion

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A boom

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L’abondance

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The abundance, the affluence

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Une période de prospérité

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A flush times

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Remettre un pays sur le chemin de la croissance

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To set a country back on the road to growth

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Soutenir la croissance

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To sustain growth

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Réaliser la croissance

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To achieve growth