决策僵局多持续一日，美国经济 — — 已经陷入了失业危机、大规模财政赤字和大量资不抵债按揭贷款泥淖，同时政策利率已经下降到零水平 — — 的失速风险就放大一分。
The longer the policymaking impasse persists, the greater the stall-speed risk for an economy that already has an unemployment crisis, a large budget deficit, many underwater mortgages, and policy interest rates floored at zero.