Worse, these numbers are just the latest in what has now been a four-and-a-half-year-old trend. From the first quarter of 2008 through the second quarter of 2012, annualized growth in real consumption spending has averaged a mere 0.7% – all the more extraordinary when compared with the pre-crisis trend of 3.6% in the decade ending in 2007.
更糟糕的是，这些数字只是已经存在了四年半的趋势的最新延续。从2008年一季度开始直到2012年二季度，年化真实消费支出增长率只有0.7%——与2007年危机前十年的平均数字3.6%形成鲜明对比。