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Now we seem to be starting to rediscover thrift.Debt levels are falling.Consumer spending is down.The savings rate is on the ris
Now we seem to be starting to rediscover thrift.Debt levels are falling.Consumer spending is down.The savings rate is on the ris
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2020-03-28
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Now we seem to be starting to rediscover thrift.Debt levels are falling.Consumer spending is down.The savings rate is on the rise.Great,right? Not exactly.The sudden sobering up of the American consumer happens to be the No.1 force driving the U.S.and global economies downward.We’re saving more,yet we’re all getting poorer.
This is what some economists call the paradox of thrift.Paul McCulley,an economist and portfolio manager at bond giant Pimco,defines it like this:“If we all individually cut our spending in an attempt to increase individual savings,then our collective savings will paradoxically fall because one person’s spending is another’s income——the fountain from which savings flow.”
At present,while retailers and a few economists still make the case that more consumer spending would be a really great thing,our nation’s political leaders have concluded that it’s too soon to issue calls for more shopping.New York Times columnist David Leonhardt makes a clever pitch for spending now on things that will save your money later.
Still,the approach remains paradoxical.Our profligacy has gotten us into trouble,and so the response is more
profligacy
?There is no shortage of critics who contend that today’s massive government spending is simply laying the foundation of another financial crisis,this one centering on a loss of confidence in Treasuries and the dollar.
For now,we’re betting that it won’t——and investors from around the world are letting us get away with it by continuing to buy U.S.-government debt.We will,however,eventually have to shape up.Consumers must pay down their credit cards,and the country must pay down at least part of its debt.“Some of the painful adjustments that are taking place are not avoidable,”says David Blankenhom,founder and president of the Institute for American Values.“Wringing debt out of our economy at every level is a painful and inevitable process.and it isn’t going to be solved by charging more things at the supermarket.”
Blankenhorn isn’t opposed to using government stimulus to ease the transition.but he’s worried that it could obscure the need for big changes in behavior.“If the moral of today’s crisis is ‘Let’s stimulate this and empty that,and as soon as things get back to normal,we can go back to a debt culture,’that’s just not a sustainable idea,”he says.
He’s right.Virtually all economists agree that there is no paradox of thrift in the long run.Saving stimulates investment.Careful management of resources brings prosperity.Thrift is its own reward.Just not right this second.
The author mentions David Leonhardt’s method to__________.
选项
A、refute economists’ calling for more spending
B、raise the discussion on how to resolve the paradox of thrift
C、justify governments’ unwillingness to stimulate shopping
D、show a compromising choice between more spending and more saving
答案
B
解析
推断题。根据人名David Leonhardt定位到第三段。该段第二句介绍完大卫·伦哈特“购买以后有助于省钱的东西”这种折中方法后,紧接着的第四段就对上述方式进行了探讨并引出如何合理解决节约悖论的话题,由此可知,作者在这里提及大卫·哈伦特的解决方法是为了引出后文关于如何解决节约悖论的内容,故B项正确。A、C两项误区在于阐述大卫·哈伦特的做法出现了表达save your money,但他提倡的是“购买今后有助于省钱的东西”本质仍然是购物,与经济学家的号召相符,并非支持“政府不应刺激购物”的观点。D项误区在于该项正确阐释了大卫·伦哈特方法的实质,但该项就事论事,没有体现写作的目的。故本题选B。
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