Because of the current financial problems, we are in permanent crisis mode.

He found a roomful of officials in 'crisis mode'.

We swung into crisis mode.

While no one ruled out an accidental cause, such as a catastrophic structural failure, governments in the two capitals swung into crisis mode.

For years after the financial crisis, most central banks were in crisis mode, keeping interest rates at record lows and pumping billions of pounds' worth of stimulus into their economies.