2《经济学人》1月31日美国近来好像已摆脱了那些笼罩在欧元区、英国或者日本上空的经济阴霾。日前公布的美国去年四季度GDP季率萎缩0.1%可能令市场相当震惊。较去年三季度季率上升3.1%确有下降,但还未直接陷入萎缩。这份报告可能加剧关于美国陷入双底衰退威胁的埋怨,但消息似乎并不那么糟糕,把其 2 The Economist January 31 The United States seems to have recently escaped the haze of the economy over the Eurozone, the United Kingdom or Japan. The recent announcement by the United States that the quarterly GDP rate in the fourth quarter of last year has shrunk by 0.1% may be quite a shock to the market. Compared with the third quarter of last year, the quarter rate rose 3.1% indeed declined, but not directly into atrophy. The report may exacerbate the complaint that the United States is caught in the threat of a double-dip recession, but the news does not seem to be so bad as to put it