NEWPORT BEACH – Watching America’s leaders scramble in the closing days of 2012 to avoid a “fiscal cliff” that would plunge the economy into recession was yet another illustration of an inconvenient truth: messy politics remains a major driver of economic developments.
发自纽波特滩——眼看着美国领导人在2012年最后那几天奋力挣扎着避免出现“财政悬崖”以免经济陷入衰退的状况，恰好体现出一个令人沮丧的事实：混乱的政治依旧是经济发展的主要驱动力。