《经济学家》二○○六年十月十九日的特别报道来自香港,通过“替代性引擎”、“包和购物袋”和“美国在哪里”三个部分,阐述了美国经济的急剧减速被增长中的亚洲消费力量所补偿的可能性,并对这种很大程度上尚未被认识的力量予以澄清和解析。美国消费者在过去十年里扮演了全球经济增长最主要的引擎,但当目前美国的房地产热潮开始出现破 The Economist’s special report on October 19, 2006 came from Hong Kong through the three sections of “Alternative Engines”, “Bags and Shopping Bags” and “Where is America?”, Elaborated on the possibility that the rapid deceleration of the U.S. economy will be compensated by the growing consumption power in Asia and clarifies and resolves this largely unrecognized force. The U.S. consumer has played the most important engine of global economic growth over the past decade, but as the current real estate boom in the United States begins to burst