Spring has arrived and policymakers see “green shoots”. Barack Obama's economic adviser, Lawrence Summers, says the “sense of freefall” in the US economy should end in a few months. The president himself spies “glimmers of hope”. Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, said last week “recently we have seen tentative signs that the sharp decline in economic activity may be slowing, for example, in data on home sales, homebuilding and consumer spending, including sales of new motor vehicles”.
春天來了，政策制定者看到了經濟復甦的「萌芽」。巴拉克•歐巴馬(Barack Obama)經濟顧問勞倫斯•薩默斯(Lawrence Summers)表示，今後幾個月內，美國經濟「自由落體的感覺」將會告終。歐巴馬總統自己也望見了「希望的曙光」。美聯準(Fed)主席班•柏南奇(Ben Bernanke)上週表示，「最近，從住房銷售、住宅開工量、以及包括新機動車銷售在內的消費者支出等數據中，我們看到了初步跡象，顯示經濟活動急劇減弱的勢頭可能正在放緩」。
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