美国从资产负债表衰退中的复苏,向来缓慢而脆弱。多亏了新兴市场,美国的衰退才不会拖垮世界经济。但是,草率的负债协议没有解决美国财政的任何实际问题,如应得权益花费等,这引起了更多的忧虑。如果一个国家的政客如此极端,愿意拿国家经济赌博,说他们能避免这一注定艰难的时期变成更长期的经济停滞,你信吗?
The fin rising to the surface
初现端倪
Begin with the state of the recovery. On July 29th Americas government statisticianspublished revisions to the past few years of GDP statistics. They showed that the 2008recession was deeper than first thought, and the subsequent recovery flatter. Output has notyet regained its pre-recession peak. And the feeble recovery is petering out. Over the pastyear output has grown by a mere 1.6%, well below what most economists consider to be theeconomys underlying growth rate, and a pace that has in the past almost always beenfollowed by recession. Over the past six months the United States has eked out annualisedgrowth of merely 0.8%. Even observers who, like us, had expected America to bounce alongnear the bottom for a while had not expected growth to be this low.
先从复苏情况说起。7月29日美国政府公布了对过去几年GDP数据的修改版本。这些最新数据表明,2008年的衰退比预想严重,复苏也更加乏力。产出并未达到衰退前的峰值,就连这点乏力的复苏也在渐渐消失。去年产出只增长了1.6%,远低于多数经济学家认为的内在增长率,这个速度在过去几乎总是衰退的前兆。过去6个月,美国的年增率仅为0.8%。即便是对于我们这些预料到美国经济会在底部边缘徘徊一段时间的观察者来说,这个数字都低得令人惊讶。
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