That's especially true of the United States and its culture of excess consumption.

针对美国的过度消费的文化来讲，这种观点尤其正确。

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Thus excess saving in one part of the world has driven excess consumption in another.

全球局部的过剩储蓄造成了另一地方的过剩消费。

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Countries with excess consumption and dependent on external debt should rein in that consumption.

那些过度消费、依靠外债的国家应该控制这种消费。

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But the focus is now on smart cards, which would ration subsidised petrol to a few litres a week, with excess consumption being paid for at the cost of imports.

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The latest round is that the corn industry wants to change the usual name from HFCS (which has bad connotations now that half the country seems to be blaming it for obesity, something caused by an excess of caloric consumption over caloric use, not any specific foodstuff) to corn sugar.

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Mr Greider chooses a global-crisis scenario, arguing among other things that the world is suffering from a shortage of consumption (an excess of saving) because workers in developing countries earn less than their productivity would indicate.

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