要是早个几百年,我没有什么选择余地,只能哄我妻子卡桑德拉赌个三局两胜的游戏,指望依靠我天生就缺少的节奏感,造出不同的结果。
In an earlier century, I would have had no choice but to trick my wife Cassandra into a best-of-three contest using a method that depends on my genetically inherited lack of rhythm.
比起日本,美国更加依赖于外国购买其国债,而这些外国投资者中大多数是官方的购买者,比如央行,这就使得美国没有什么选择的余地。
America relies more on foreigners to buy its debt than Japan does, but many of those foreigners are official buyers such as central Banks with little alternative.
决策者的回应能力也很有限,因为利率已经接近为零,没有什么降低的余地了。
Policymakers' ability to respond is constrained because rates, close to zero, cannot be cut much more.
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