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zombie economy

zombie economy noun: a national economy with a high proportion of zombie companies and zombie banks, as happened in Japan during its lost decades.

Noun

zombie economy (plural zombie economies)

  1. A national economy with a high proportion of zombie companies and zombie banks, as happened in Japan during its lost decades.
    • It will be tempting for the US and Europe to engage in some financial repression in the coming years, using various means to force interest rates lower. Not only will it make America’s addiction to debt seem manageable, it will help ease the transition to an AI economy, Cheap debt will allow more...2025 October 13, Allison Schrager, “A Zombie Economy Could Be America's Future”, in Bloomberg Opinion, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2025

Forms of zombie economy

pluralzombie economies

Questions about zombie economy

What does zombie economy mean?
Zombie economy means a national economy with a high proportion of zombie companies and zombie banks, as happened in Japan during its lost decades.
What part of speech is zombie economy?
Zombie economy is a noun.
What is the plural of zombie economy?
The plural of zombie economy is zombie economies.

Words near zombie economy in the dictionary

  1. zombie debtor
  2. zombie debtors
  3. zombie debts
  4. zombie deer disease
  5. zombie economies
  6. zombie economy
  7. zombie effect
  8. zombie effects
  9. zombie finger
  10. zombie fingers
  11. zombie fire

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