We have got the message. Liz Truss, Britain’s new prime minister, is all about growth in gross domestic product. “I have three priorities for our economy: growth, growth and growth,” she said in her conference speech last week. She implied the negative market reaction to her chancellor’s “mini” Budget — which made the pound fall and mortgage rates surge — would be worth it. “As the last few weeks have shown, it will be difficult,” she said. “Whenever there is change, there is disruption. And not everyone will be in favour of change. But everyone will benefit from the result.”There are two problems with this strategy. The first is that most people don’t know what GDP growth is, let alone care about it. Nobody is standing outside Downing Street with a megaphone chanting “What do we want? 2.5 per cent annual GDP growth. When do we want it? Over the medium term.”
我們明白了。英國新任首相利茲?特拉斯(Liz Truss)最看重的是國內生產總值(GDP)增長。她在上周的會議講話中表示：“我對我們的經濟有三個優先事項：增長、增長、增長。”她暗示，市場對她的財政大臣的“迷你”預算——該預算導致英鎊下跌、抵押貸款利率飆升——的負面反應將是值得的。她說：“正如過去幾周所顯示的，這將是困難的。只要有變化，就會有顛覆。而并不是所有人都贊成改變。但每個人都會從結果中受益。”