The Obama administration is increasingly signalling that the US will not continue to be the world's consumer and importer of last resort. The clearest statements came last month from Larry Summers , White House economics director, in a speech at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and in an interview with the Financial Times. The US, he said, must become an export-oriented rather than a consumption-based economy and must rely on real engineering rather than financial wizardry. Tim Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, and other top officials have spoken similarly of rebalancing US growth.
奧巴馬(Obama)政府日益暗示，美國將不再繼續擔當全球最終消費國和進口國的角色。上月，白宮經濟委員會主任拉里?薩默斯(Larry Summers)在彼得森國際經濟研究所(Peterson Institute for International Economics)演講和接受英國《金融時報》采訪時，對此做了最清晰的表述。他表示，美國必須成為以出口為導向、而不是以消費為基礎的經濟體；必須依靠真正的工程技術，而不是金融“巫術”。美國財政部長蒂姆?蓋特納(Tim Geithner)和其它高官也發出了類似的、使美國經濟增長恢復平衡的言論。