It is encouraging that only a small part of the recent acceleration in consumption growth is due to the release of Apple’s iPhone 5 and that the recovery in the housing market is gathering pace. But these green shoots of recovery are unlikely to blossom into a sustained strengthening in overall GDP growth until the euro-zone debt crisis and America’s fiscal problems are solved once and for all.
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