美国正处在一项大规模结构性变革的初期阶段,美国人逐渐开始减少举债增加储蓄,在支出方面也比过去精打细算得多。鉴于美国人既负债过多又消费过度,美国经济不得不经历的调整将是痛苦的。不过,这些调整将大多发生在美国以外,因为美国消费者购买的东西大多产自国外。从1998年至2008年期间,美国消费者支出占国内生产总值(GDP)的比重从67.2%上升至70.5%。如果消费支出占GDP的比重回落至十年前的水平,将会减少4,700亿美元。美国的进出口已经双双大幅下挫。经济学家们预计,周四公布的2月份贸易数据将显示,美国当月贸易逆差为360亿美元,与1月份的6年来最低水平相同,大大低于上年同期的620亿美元。现在的问题是,一旦美国经济稳定下来,美国的贸易数据将会怎样。美国从其他国家进口的大多是消费品,没有这些进口消费品美国人或许也能过日子,而美国的出口产品中却有许多是机械和高科技产品,其他国家想放弃不买并不容易。当我们用一个国家生产了多少东西来衡量其经济表现时,中国一类的国家处境可能将比美国不利得多。Justin Lahart相关阅读美国1月份储蓄率创近14年来最高水平 2009-03-02美国消费者节俭的两难处境 2009-02-04美国家庭终于开始存钱 2009-01-06
America is in the early stages of a massive structural change, with people moving toward borrowing less, saving more and being far more careful with their spending. With the country both overbanked and overstored, the adjustments that the economy will have to go through will be wrenching.Much of the adjustment, however, will occur outside of the U.S., where much of what American consumers purchase is made.From 1998 to 2008, consumer spending rose to 70.5% of gross domestic product from 67.2%. If spending's share of GDP were to lurch back to its decade-ago level, it would fall by $470 billion.The U.S. already has seen both imports and exports dry up. When February trade figures are released Thursday, economists expect they will show the trade deficit at $36 billion, equal to January's six-year low and well below the year earlier's $62 billion. The question is what will happen to the trade figures once the economy stabilizes.While much of what the U.S. buys from other countries counts as consumer wares people might do without, a lot of what the U.S. exports includes stuff like machinery and technology goods that aren't as easy to forgo. As we measure economic performance by how much a country produces, places like China could be in for a far rockier ride than the U.S.Justin Lahart
分享到:
相关推荐
Dynamics CRM 2015 holds a wealth of information about customers and the sales pipeline, but sometimes leaves users with basic end-user reporting and dashboard options. Power BI is a great new tool for...
The optimal power flow (OPF) problem is nonconvex and generally hard to solve. In this paper,we propose a semidefinite programming (SDP) optimization, which is the dual of an equivalent form of the ...
to the contrary, collection and analysis of data can help us prevent traffic jams, suppress epidemics, or produce tailor made medicine. The authors sketch the contours of a new information society, ...
Define an abstract class Vehicle in the file Vehicle.java, add data members that can ...The class Motor holds extra information for price of the vehicle. Define necessary methods in the class Motor.
science holds true for Germany, France, Holland, Denmark, and the rest of the European countries as well. I have no experience with Japan, China, or India directly, but there is no reason to believe ...
Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle technology holds much promise for reducing the demand for petroleum in the transportation sector. Its potential impact is highly dependent on the system design and in ...
How can AI evolve to human levels? What could its impact on society and the ... Find out what the future holds for AI in Architects of Intelligence, one of the Financial Times Books of the Year 2018.
He’ll be very happy if that story holds up. The white-haired girl’s story is one of the saddest. A young man came to Scott’s office with a story. Wet paint! He was wet to the skin. But smith showed...
JS holds down the left mouse button to select the element box code
(b) the name of the table, the names of the table's attributes, the data types of the table's attributes, the formats of the table's attributes, and the maximum number of rows that the table can have...
It's the essential guide for those of us (all of us?) whose businesses are built on the ubiquity of data opportunities and the new mandate for data-driven decision-making.', --Tom Phillips, CEO of ...
Method area: holds the details of each class loaded by the class loader subsystem. Heap: holds every object being created by the threads during execution Thread specific runtime data areas: Program ...
It's the essential guide for those of us (all of us?) whose businesses are built on the ubiquity of data opportunities and the new mandate for data-driven decision-making.', --Tom Phillips, CEO of ...
A Note on Bore-Cantelli Lemma of Capacity,王增武,,In this note, we investigate the ...Lemma holds of Choquet capacity, which is a reasonable generalization of traditional Borel-Cantelli Lemma o
5G, the next generation of mobile communication technology, holds promise of improved performance in terms of reduced latency, increased reliability and higher throughput under higher mobility and ...
This holds especially for safety related processes like aircraft, trains, automobiles, power plants and chemical plants. The classical approaches are limit or trend checking of some measurable output...
Pudong New Area of Shanghai, as a reform and opening front of China, holds the balance in economic development of Yangtze Delta and even of China. After a large-scale infrastructure and function ...
He holds two associate's degrees, a bachelor's degree, and a master's degree and is certified as: CISSP, MCSE, MCT, CTT+, A+, N+, Security+, CNA, CCNA, CIW Security Analyst, CCE, CEH, CHFI, CEI, DCNP...