death spiral. Trump Gets Potential Financial Lifeline as Media Merger Is Approved

Trump Gets Potential Financial Lifeline as Media Merger Is Approved

The merger of Donald Trump’s social media company with a cash-rich shell company raises his wealth by billions and provides him with a potential source of cash to pay his mounting legal bills.

 Chancellor Olaf Scholz is facing a mounting crisis of confidence

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death spiral

noun

1. 1.

   a spiralling downward path taken by an aircraft that is out of control.

   "the plane went into a death spiral and then a nose dive"
2. 2.

   (in pairs skating) a move in which the man pivots on one foot while the woman, stretched out almost parallel to the ice and holding on to his outstretched hand, circles around him with one skate on the ice.

   "the death spiral is performed by almost every skating pair"