Answer: recessions

AnswerCrossword Clue
RECESSIONSLayoff causes
RECESSIONSTemporary setbacks.
RECESSIONSHard times
RECESSIONSEconomic slumps
RECESSIONSBooms' opposites
recessionsRECESSION, a temporary decline in a country's trade
recessionsThe action of receding; motion away from an observer
recessionsA period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in GDP in two successive quarters