The US is navigating tough economic times: while the economy is expanding, it is not growing fast enough to reduce very high levels of unemployment. Growth is likely to pick up, but only gradually, leaving considerable excess capacity in labour and product markets for some time to come. That excess capacity is likely to keep inflation well below the 1? to 2 per cent level Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, has identified as desirable.
美國(guó)正在應(yīng)對(duì)嚴(yán)峻的經(jīng)濟(jì)形勢(shì)：盡管經(jīng)濟(jì)在擴(kuò)張，但增長(zhǎng)速度不足以降低非常高的失業(yè)水平。增長(zhǎng)可能會(huì)加速，但只是漸進(jìn)的，讓未來(lái)一段時(shí)期的勞動(dòng)力和產(chǎn)品市場(chǎng)出現(xiàn)大量過剩產(chǎn)能。這種過剩產(chǎn)能可能讓通脹保持在遠(yuǎn)低于美聯(lián)儲(chǔ)(Fed)主席本?伯南克(Ben Bernanke)認(rèn)為可取的水平，即1.75%至2%。
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