Is the UK once again the economic sick man? Or is it, as Alistair Darling, chancellor of the exchequer, argued in his Budget speech on Wednesday, just one of a number of hard-hit high-income countries? The answers to these questions are: yes and yes. The explanation for this ambiguity is that the fiscal deterioration is extraordinary, but the economic collapse is not.
英國是否再度變成了經濟病人？抑或是像英國財政大臣阿利斯泰爾?達林(Alistair Darling)上周三在預算演說中所主張的那樣，英國只是眾多遭受重創的高收入國家之一？這兩個問題的答案都是肯定的。答案如此含糊的原因是，財政惡化屬于特別事件，而經濟崩潰則不是。
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