Worse, if that feeds into expectations the world will be depressingly similar to the 1970s.

更糟糕的是，如果这影响到通胀预期，那么全球将令人沮丧地回到上世纪70年代。

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Just as it would be a mistake to underestimate the new Brazil, so it would be to gloss over its weaknesses. Some of these are depressingly familiar.

正如低估一个新的巴西是一个错误，掩饰它的弱点也是错误的，其中有些让人忧心忡忡。

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The world now glories in dozens of would-be Silicon Valleys: Silicon alley in New York, Silicon Glen in Scotland and even, depressingly, Silicon Roundabout in London.

几十个山寨版的硅谷遍布世界：纽约的硅巷，苏格兰的硅溪谷，甚至，让人扫兴的，伦敦的硅环道。

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But unlike Americans, Britons like their reality to be depressingly, and sometimes tediously, real.

ECONOMIST: We love you, Big Brother

There is no debate going on and the result will be one-sided and depressingly divisive.

ECONOMIST: Police complaints

Whereas some see in Pakistan's arrest of Mr Baradar hints of a strategic shift against its old jihadist proxies, it seems depressingly more likely to be an attempt by the ISI to grab control of the Taliban's negotiating position.

ECONOMIST: Pakistan wants a say in ending the war, and it knows how to ask