The global economy is being hobbled by a new generation of zombies, the economic walking dead. The US consumer is in the early stages of an unprecedented retrenchment. In the 13 quarters since the beginning of 2008, inflation-adjusted annualised growth in consumption has averaged 0.5 per cent. Never before in the post-second world war era have US consumers been this weak for this long.
全球經濟正受到新一代「殭屍」（經濟學意義上的活死人）的拖累。美國消費者已經步入一個空前緊縮開支階段的初期。自2008年初以來的13個季度裏，經通膨因素調整後的平均年化消費成長率僅爲0.5％。在二戰之後的歲月裏，美國消費者的消費意願還從未在這麼長一段時間內如此虛弱。
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