Indicators of US balance-sheet repair hardly signal the onset of the more vigorous cyclical revival that many believe is at hand. The debt/income ratio for American households is now down to 109% – well below the peak of 135% reached in late 2007, but still 35 percentage points above the average over the final three decades of the twentieth century.
美国资产负债表修复指标并未显示出许多人相信已经发生了的更强劲的周期性复苏的信号。美国家庭的债务/收入比率目前已下降至109%，比2007年末的135%的峰值低了很多，但仍比20世纪后三十年的平均水平高了35个百分点。