Consensus forecasts do still seem optimistic. With its financial system on life support, housing prices continuing to plummet, and unemployment rising, the US economy is looking more vulnerable than it has at any time since the 1970’s, and perhaps since World War II.
而舆论的预测似乎 也 是乐观的。伴随着勉强支撑的金融体系，持续下跌的房产价格和上升的失业率，美国经济看起来比1970年代或许也是比二战以后的任何时刻都要脆弱。