With oil prices back above $100 a barrel this summer – and still high – money is once again being transferred to the oil-exporting countries. And the structural transformation of the advanced economies, implied by the need to move labor out of traditional manufacturing branches, is occurring very slowly.
同理，尽管银行奖金已经回到了原来的水平，但员工仍在工资下降和工时缩短的困境中挣扎，这进一步拉大了收入差距。此外，美国也没能摆脱原油依赖。今年夏天，原油价格再一次回到了100美元/桶上方（现在也维持在很高的水平），钱又一次流向了原油出口国。而发达经济体的结构调整——拜劳动力从传统制造业流出所赐——进展十分缓慢。