CAMBRIDGE – The rate of inflation is now close to zero in the United States and several other major countries. The Economist recently reported that economists it had surveyed predict that consumer prices in the US and Japan will actually fall for 2009 as a whole, while inflation in the euro zone will be only 0.6%.
坎布里奇——美国和其他一些主要国家的通货膨胀率现在接近为零。《经济学人》最近报道说，他们所调查的经济学家们预测美国和日本的消费价格水平在2009年实际上将会总体下降，欧元区的通胀率则将仅为0.6%。韩国，台湾和泰国也会出现消费价格水平下降。