Remember Joe Sixpack? Having spent most of the postwar decades acting as the world’s consumer of last resort, America’s middle class was expected to play a more modest role after the 2008 crash. For a few years, US consumption went into hibernation. Now, with China’s growth slowing, Europe’s stalled and some of the early excitement fading from Japan’s “Abenomics”, prospects for global growth once again hinge on Joe’s appetite to spend. Is he feeling lucky?
還記得喬?斯派(Joe Sixpack，代指普通美國人）嗎？美國中產(chǎn)階級在二戰(zhàn)后幾十年的大部分時間里充當全球“最后消費者”的角色，預計他們將在2008年危機之后發(fā)揮更為微弱的作用。這些年里，美國消費進入了冬眠模式。如今，隨著中國經(jīng)濟增速放緩，歐洲經(jīng)濟增長陷入停滯以及對日本“安倍經(jīng)濟學”的最初興奮感慢慢褪去，全球增長前景將再次取決于普通美國人的消費欲望。喬認為自己幸運嗎？
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