A first-half recession followed by a sluggish recovery-the standardforecast until recently-could well have enabled the Fed to raise rates in the autumn.
“上半年萧条，进而缓慢恢复”，这个直到最近还被奉为标准的经济预测，很有可能令美联储在今秋加息。
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In November Standard Chartered forecast that it will happen by 2020.
而渣打(Standard Chartered)在今年十一月预测，这一赶超年份可能是2020年。
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More than fifty years ago, at the New York World's Fair, the forecast for American life was something like this: "in the future, technology will bring a higher standard of living."