TY - SER AU - Wolf, Martin TI - HAPPIER DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN KW - RECUPERACION ECONOMICA ECONOMIA INTERNACIONAL COMPORTAMIENTO DEL CONSUMIDOR ESTADOS UNIDOS COMENTARIOS EDITORIALES KW - RECUPERACION ECONOMICA KW - 03 KW - 3ext131 KW - US N2 - The word economy is reviving, but much depends on the continued health of the US. Much of the credit for avoiding disaster goes to the US. Indeed if the world wished to erect a monument to the hero of the battle against depression, the honour would have to go to the unknown American consumer. With aggregate demand growth of 5 per cent last year (up from 4ΒΌ per cent in 1997), US consumers and investors generated, astonishingly, close to half of the increase in total world demand ER -