主题：奥巴马的经济顾问认为需要第二轮经济刺激计划 -- PBS

"We should be planning on a contingency basis for a second round of stimulus," Laura D'Andrea Tyson, a member of the panel advising President Barack Obama on tackling the economic crisis, said on Tuesday.

这位经济顾问认为7870亿美刀的刺激经济手段有效果，但是动作不够快，时机不好，

"The stimulus is performing close to expectations but not in timing," Tyson said, referring to the slow pace at which the first round of stimulus had been spent on the economy.

另外第一轮的经济刺激的规模还偏小，要实施第二轮经济刺激，而且这次刺激要直接进入基建领域。

Addressing a seminar in Singapore, Tyson said she felt the first round of stimulus aimed to prop up the economy had been slightly smaller than she would have liked and that a possible second round should be directed at infrastructure investment.

至于为什么首次刺激经济动作效果不明显，这位也曾担任过克林顿政府的经济顾问认为现任政府没有“预料”经济情况如此之糟糕。

Tyson, who is a dean of the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley and was also a White House economic adviser to former President Bill Clinton, said an additional factor affecting the stimulus was that the economy was in a far worse shape than the administration had estimated.

结合最近副总统拜登的谈话，看来美国要出台新的刺激计划了。