Since the fourth quarter of 2008, America’s net national saving rate has been negative – in sharp contrast to the 6.4%-of-GDP averaged over the last three decades of the twentieth century. Never before in modern history has the world’s leading economic power experienced a saving shortfall of such epic proportions.
在美国，净储蓄早已不复存在。自2008年第四季度以来，美国净国民储蓄率一直是负数，与20世纪最后30年的平均水平——占GDP的6.4%相去甚远。在现代历史中，还从未有哪个世界经济大国经历过如此规模的储蓄短缺。