美國債務上限危機

????日期：2011年8月4日

????道瓊斯指數：下跌512點,，跌幅4.3%

????2011年,，美國國會一直是導致市場悲觀情緒的罪魁禍首。今年8月份早些時候,，議員們仍然未能在最終期限之前提高債務限額,，這也將他們的無能展現得淋漓盡致。而接下來的一天,，便是月度就業(yè)報告公布的日期,，它進一步加重了投資者的恐慌。預測美國經濟將二次探底的經濟學家人數陡然之間激增,，8月4日也被認為是自2008年金融危機以來最糟糕的交易日。

????只不過,，這頂所謂“最糟糕”的帽子到了接下來的周一就再次易主,。

Debt ceiling crisis

????Date: August 4, 2011

????Dow: -512, down 4.3%

????Congress was the source of so much disappointment during 2011. Legislators reached the pinnacle of ineptitude in early August, when they failed to meet a deadline to raise the debt ceiling. It happened one day before a monthly jobs report was expected, which made investors even more nervous. The number of economists forecasting a double-dip recession suddenly spiked, and the August 4 plunge was declared the worst trading day since the 2008 financial crisis.?

??? The worst, that is, until the following Monday.