Recent data on consumer spending in the United States have been terrible. Growth in inflation-adjusted US personal consumption expenditures has just been revised down to 1.5% in the second quarter of 2012, and appears to be on track for a similarly anemic increase in the third quarter.
病人是美国消费者——世界有史以来最大规模的消费者，但现在正陷入大萧条以来最大的不适中。最新的美国消费数据令人极其沮丧。2012年二季度经通胀调整的个人消费支出刚刚被向下修正了1.5%，看起来三季度的数字也是半斤八两。