Two quarters of strengthening GDP growth hardly indicates a breakout from an anemic recovery. The same thing has happened twice since the end of the Great Recession in mid-2009 – a 3.4% average annualized gain in the second and third quarters of 2010 and a 4.3% average increase in the fourth quarter of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012.
但我的建议是庆祝胜利为时尚早。两个季度的GDP增长走强并不意味着复苏萎靡的状况得到了突破。自2009年中期大衰退结束以来，相同的情况发生过两次——2010年第二季度和第三季度的年化增长率平均为3.4%；2011年四季度和2012年一季度平均增长了4.3%。结果，这两次的乐观形势最终都只是昙花一现。