但支出过多、储蓄过少的美国消费者也是如此 — — 欧元区就更不用说了，其外围经济体（葡萄牙、意大利、爱尔兰、希腊和西班牙）从根本上说就是一场增长预期过度膨胀的杠杆游戏。
But the same was true for over-extended, saving-short American consumers – to say nothing of a eurozone that was basically a levered play on overly-inflated growth expectations in its peripheral economies – Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain.