apparatchiks (en)

members of a communist party apparat (apparatus)

double-dip recession (en)

when GDP growth slides back to negative after a quarter or two of positive growth

garrison states (en)

a state organized to serve primarily its own need for military security; also : a state maintained by military power

Hobbesian (en)

referring to the 17th century English author Thomas Hobbes, whose best-known work, Leviathan, describes a situation of unrestrained, selfish and uncivilized competition

porto franco (en)

(Italian or Portuguese for "free port") a port or an area of a port in which imported goods can be held or processed free of customs duties before reexport.

ratchet effect (en)

(labor markets) when workers subject to performance pay choose to restrict their output, because they rationally anticipate that firms will respond to higher output levels by raising output requirements or cutting pay