目前在有关美国经济走势的争论中,有的人认为美国经济实际上已经发生衰退,这种看法有失偏颇。首先,从经济指标看,美国并没有发生经济衰退。一个国家的经济是否发生衰退,国际上公认的衡量指标是看该国的GDP是否连续两个季度出现负增长。尽管2000年第三、第四季度美国经济的增长速度同第一、第二季度相比下 At present, some people think that the U.S. economy has actually experienced a recession in the debate on the trend of the U.S. economy. This view is biased. First of all, from the economic indicators, there is no economic recession in the United States. Whether a country’s economy is in recession or not is an internationally accepted measure of whether the country’s GDP has experienced negative growth for two consecutive quarters. Although the U.S. economy grew at the third and fourth quarters of 2000 as compared with the first and second quarters