微软公司创始人之一比尔·盖茨在美东时间13日参加哈佛商学院百年庆典时说: 美国经济正在走向“非常严重的衰退” (fairly significant recession), 失业率将超过9% (the unemployment rate may peak at more than 9 percent. ).
比尔·盖茨认为高风险的“杠杆交易危害大得不可思议”(The danger of leverage is pretty incredible. ).
Bloomberg原文如下:
Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates said the U.S. economy is headed for a ``fairly significant recession,'' and that the unemployment rate may peak at more than 9 percent.
Higher personal and governmental debt are contributing to the U.S. economic slowdown, Gates said today in comments at Harvard Business School in Boston. The U.S. unemployment rate climbed to 6.1 percent in August and stayed at that level in September.
Alumni gathering at the business school's centennial celebration responded to questions about the worst U.S. financial crisis since the Great Depression. The perception of a strong economy led many investors to have unrealistic expectations of high, stable market returns while there were few defaults and other signs of trouble, Gates said.
``That encourages people to get leveraged and take risks,'' Gates said. ``The danger of leverage is pretty incredible.''
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aeJtdzVvNYk4&refer=home
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