Now it has responded, with a stimulus package that is too little, too late, and badly designed. To see the inadequacy of that package, compare it with the more than $1.5 trillion that was borrowed in home equity loans in recent years, most of it spent on consumption.
现在布什政府的反应是一项综合经济刺激办法，而这一办法来得太少太迟，而且结构粗糙。近年来，房产股本贷款超过一万五千亿美元。跟这个相比较就可以看出这一办法是不够的了。基于房产价格只会上升这一信念的游戏结束了。