美国债务上限危机

????日期：2011年8月4日

????道琼斯指数：下跌512点，跌幅4.3%

????2011年，美国国会一直是导致市场悲观情绪的罪魁祸首。今年8月份早些时候，议员们仍然未能在最终期限之前提高债务限额，这也将他们的无能展现得淋漓尽致。而接下来的一天，便是月度就业报告公布的日期，它进一步加重了投资者的恐慌。预测美国经济将二次探底的经济学家人数陡然之间激增，8月4日也被认为是自2008年金融危机以来最糟糕的交易日。

????只不过，这顶所谓“最糟糕”的帽子到了接下来的周一就再次易主。

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.