Companies on both sides of the Atlantic could be thrown off course by the US fiscal cliff and the EU sovereign-debt crisis. If economy-defining government and regulatory policies have become unstable in the short and long term, companies must adjust to that reality.
这让我们把企业短期投资和脆弱的公共财政联系起来。大西洋两岸的公司都有可能被美国财政悬崖和欧洲主权债务危机拖离其原来轨道。如果对经济起决定作用的政府和管制政策在短期和长期上都变得不稳定，那企业就必须适应那样的现实。