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看壞美國?且慢

2006-02-27 12:37迴響:23點閱:13343

從小布希總統兩週前發表的經濟報告來看,美國經濟不像外界所想的糟,儘管財政赤字和對外貿易逆差持續擴大,但基本面仍不錯,呼應聯邦儲備理事會缷任主席葛林斯潘離職前後談話,也為新上任主席班南克要繼續升息的動作背書。

這似乎悖離我們對於經濟學的理解,一個無法平衡赤字並縮小逆差的政府,憑什麼對未來樂觀,而且還打算調升利率?況且,美國的製造業工作還在持續流失到中國,而會計、報稅和客服中心等白領工作流失到印度。

這當中肯定有什麼事不對了,而答案就是衡量經濟的指標該調整。美國《商業週刊》強調,目前各國用來計算經濟成長的GDP模式,是經濟學家顧茲奈在一九三0年代所構思出,當時是受命於羅斯福總統,要比較自一九二九年紐約股市崩盤引發的大蕭條以來,美國經濟究竟是走出谷底,還是繼續沈淪。

衡量GDP可分為「投資」、「貿易」(含進出口)和「消費」(內需)三大類,每一大類下再細分,每一個指標都有清楚定義。顧茲奈模式被美國政府延用至今,也廣為全世界各國借鏡。經過七十多年,當經濟結構出現根本變化,這套模式也需要調整。

以投資為例,先前指標注重的是固定資產,像「買土地」、「蓋廠房」和「添設備」,主要是看得到的東西,至於專利、品牌和商譽等並不在其中。當美國企業考量成本,把設廠投產搬到海外時,在美國的「投資」自然減少,他們留在美國做的是「教育訓練」、「研發」和「買軟體」,但這些項目用目前定義來說都不列在投資中,即便他們對企業產生的價值比蓋廠還高。

舉例來看,位於矽谷的Google,去年營收逾六十一億美金,但Google花在買土地蓋大樓和添購機器設備的花費,不到一億美金,從傳統意義來看Google對美國經濟沒有幫助,因為它幾乎沒有「投資」,儘管它已雇用五千多位員工,市值超過一千億美金,是通用和福特汽車加起來的三倍。

美國未來是希望多一家Google、還是多一家在底特律的汽車裝配廠?答案很明顯,目前指標無法反應美國真實情況,還嚴重失真。

每一個十年,都有人看壞美國。一九八0年代是哈佛大學教授傅高義,代表作品是《日本第一》,一九九0年代是麻省理工史隆管理學院前院長梭羅,代表作品是《世紀之爭》,這一個十年則是〈紐約時報〉專欄作家傅里曼,代表作品是《世界是平的》。

他們都看到問題,觀點都很犀利,但美國也在不斷自我調整。該是換把新尺來量美國的時候,這不是以今是論昨非,而是找到一個更準確理解明日的方法。

 

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re: 看壞美國?且慢

經濟或股市預測為什麼不準?

1) 問題本身太複雜

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_10/b3974137.htm

2) 片面的分析,不足以符合充分必要條件的驗證

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/necessary-sufficient/

3) 其他我還沒觀察到的原因

結論:分析「若A則B」的推理是可以的,若要下結論的話請小心,因為可能被出人意外的結果賞了一巴掌。

2006-03-01 06:25 無名

re: 看壞美國?且慢

Don,
Very interesting article in deed.
Thank you for enlighting me.
Happy to learn some thing new to me.

2006-03-01 03:25 Michael Han

re: 看壞美國?且慢

why things have to become personal? let's talk about facts, shall we?

2006-03-01 03:11 Don

re: 看壞美國?且慢

Here is another article

http://www.geocities.com/northstarzone/FED.html

Quite interesting, isn't it?

2006-03-01 01:32 Don

re: 看壞美國?且慢

Frankly speaking, you don't have to be perfect in speaking
American English. The language is just the tool to
communicate with each other.
Here in my place a good comman of English does not mean a
thing. I don't require employee to pass English written test
before hiring. They are all americans.
Would that satisfy you with my simple answere?
Talking about Economy, everyone is entiled to have an
opinion. I recently feel that Google's adwords do not provide
me with good results. I am feeling directly a pinch to this year
business performance.
That is the result after I read that article and expressed
my direct concern.
You have your opinion and I respect that.
Say something with bad mouth is not my style.
You have to forgive my spelling because I don't spell check
handy.
Have a good day!

2006-03-01 01:30 Michael Han

re: 看壞美國?且慢

I was invited to a dinner party the other day.
One guy asked:" do you speak English?"
"What? Oh, English No no se..."
"What are you doing for living?"
"I am a scientist."
"What kind?"
"No brainer."
"Welcome to the club."
..........

2006-02-28 21:58 Michael Han

re: 看壞美國?且慢

Guys. Please write your message in plain and modern English. Shame on you. Living in US for 21 yrs... Is it ture? No wonder you are complaining about US. You cannot even command English. How do you know US?

2006-02-28 19:17 a@b.c

re: 看壞美國?且慢

Andy of 60 minutes once said some things about GM and
Ford"Why don't you make some good quality cars instead of
creating so many fancy names...." The patriotic e-mail pulled
in including this "If you know, say you know....why don't
you pack your old typewritor and retire..."
Well, I did not say this and I don't have an eggs on this one
But I have been living in America for 21 years......
Hey, Andy, are you with me?

2006-02-28 11:44 Michael Han

re: 看壞美國?且慢

If you know, say you know. If you don't know, say you don't know. Since I know a Fart, I have no valueable opinion on this subject.

However, I won't put my eggs in this basket. Did I mention I have lots of eggs?

2006-02-28 10:43 Luft

re: 看壞美國?且慢

如果看好美國,請投資美國;如果看壞美國,請放空美國;三年、五年、十年後你就知道自己當初的判斷是對還是錯了。

五年前十年前也有人討論這種問題,浪費口水罷了。因為每個人表面上講得頭頭是道,我看是個個沒把握。因為有把握的話,大賺一筆都來不及了,誰要在這裡爭誰對誰錯呢?

2006-02-28 08:05 無名

re: 看壞美國?且慢

樓上的那些我不知道你們有沒有去過美國?
美國雖然是一個很機車的國家,但是牠的國力仍然是世界第一的,牠的預算赤字越多,遭殃的外國人越多,因為最終還是轉嫁給外國人,中國蘇聯進步的多快,還是要向美國買糧食,而且不要忘了,美國還是世界上最法制的國家,法制與天然資源是成為一個超級強國不可缺的要項,而且不要忘了,美國還是最大的人才輸入國,這才是可以維持不墜的原因,Harvard, MIT的教授們,每天坐在自己的豪華辦公室裡,拼湊一些統計數字,吃好穿好的還在唱衰美國,搞不好可能自己都沒走遍美國,倒是住遍了其他國家豪華旅館。
學者的話,聽聽就好,分析一個國家還是要從基本面著眼。

2006-02-28 07:42 你真的了解美國嗎?

re: 看壞美國?且慢

You are way too cynical to be informative here. Almost sounds like liberal hypercrtics

2006-02-28 02:51 to kk

re: 看壞美國?且慢

Wait a minutes,
may be it is time to turn the table.
Read John's Articles:
Probabilities of Recession - John Mauldin's Weekly E-Letter
It has taken Japan more than 10 years to recover from its
recession.
If John is right, this article serves as warning sign.

2006-02-28 01:43 Michael Han

re: 看壞美國?且慢

政客的視野都一樣,從來不會看到腳尖的!
古今中外皆然!

2006-02-28 01:03 tango

re: 看壞美國?且慢

you said alan greenspan is probably the greatest central banker of all time
i said he is the most overrated,most irresponsible,most selfish and most motherfucking economist/federal reserve chairman in us history
who is right?
time will tell

2006-02-27 18:53 kk

re: 看壞美國?且慢

oh,i forgot to tell you
do you know the us federal reserve is a private bank? and lehman brothers is one of its shareholders? why is that? who else also own the us central bank?
how come a country's central bank is a private bank?
lehman is like a player in a ball game, but how come a player is allowed to become a player and a referee?
let me tell you one thing
if you control the printing press which can print the world reserve currency at will, then you literally control the world without having to own any lethal weapons like nuclear bombs, nuclear-powered subs,or aircraft carriers bla bla bla

2006-02-27 18:26 kk

re: 看壞美國?且慢

do you know that america is a bully when dealing with the so-called "rogue countries" such as iraq, iran, n. korea, libya .. and a coward when facing truly rogue countries such as russia and china?

before fixing any policy involving the united states, you must first and foremost of all understand what an american would do if this or that happened. without understanding like this only leads to waste of time and money and humiliates yourself as well
what taiwanese is doing in handling americans is absolutely ridiculous. why? because even those with phd from american universities do not truly understand americans

2006-02-27 18:09 kk

re: 看壞美國?且慢

my advice to all of you:
before talking about america this and america that, you need to make sure you truly understand what that country is.
you got the information mostly from the media, right?
but who owns the media?
who owns the federal reserve?
who are the "shareholders" of the federal reserve?
who owns "wall street"?

2006-02-27 17:48 kk

re: 看壞美國?且慢

do you know the price of gold should be much much higher than us$550 per ounce?
do you know who does not want to see a higher price of gold? and how "they" "tame" the price of gold?
do you know gold at us$550 per ounce is "subsdized" price?
click here
http://www.gata.org
http://www.goldensextant.com

2006-02-27 17:39 kk

re: 看壞美國?且慢

are you interested in understanding the united states?
click here:
http://www.jewwatch.com
http://www.rense.com
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com

2006-02-27 17:28 kk
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