Mussa l'optimiste

Le très respecté Michael Mussa (extrait de sa contribution au 15th Semiannual meeting on Global Economic Prospects, 7 avril 2009):

Aided by substantial policy stimulus, growth in the Chinese economy should begin to accelerate in the first half of 2009 and the US recession should bottom out around mid-year with recovery accelerating to about a 4 percent annual rate by the fourth quarter. Recoveries in other countries will likely lag a little behind those in China and the United States. But, aided by a bounce-back in global trade from its recent extraordinarily sharp decline, the world economy generally will be in recovery by year-end. Then we will observe, as we have many times before, the Zarnowitz rule: Deep recessions are almost always followed by steep recoveries.