官方的统计数字很可能高估了经济增长水平，因为该统计忽略了一些重要事实，即小企业的经营情绪（business sentiment）极其低落，它们的产出仍在急剧下滑。
But official measures of GDP may grossly overstate growth in the economy as they don't capture the fact that business sentiment among small firms is abysmal and their output is still falling sharply.