美政府刺激消费的最重要手段是运用利率杠杆稳定股市，提高民众的消费信心。多数经济学家认为，近期以来在美国工资增长速度不快的情况下，消费势头持续旺盛，主要是股市增值使美国人感到自己的财富大幅增长。１９９８年７月美国股市大幅下跌时，消费信心指数也一路下滑，美联 The most important means by which the United States government stimulates consumption is to leverage the interest rate lever to stabilize the stock market and raise people’s consumer confidence. Most economists believe that in the recent case of unpleasant wage growth in the United States, the momentum of consumption continued to rise, mainly because the appreciation of the stock market made the Americans feel their wealth has increased substantially. When the U.S. stock market dropped sharply in July 1998, the consumer confidence index slipped all the way