Actually, no. In fact, business leaders often give remarkably bad economic advice, especially in troubled times. And I think it’s important to understand why.
实际上并非如此。事实上,商界领袖给出的经济建议常常出奇地坏,尤其是在经济状况糟糕的时候。我想有必要理解一下背后的原因。
About that bad advice: Think of the hugely wealthy money managers who warned Ben Bernanke that the Fed’s efforts to boost the economy risked “currency debasement”; think of the many corporate chieftains who solemnly declared that budget deficits were the biggest threat facing America, and that fixing the debt would cause growth to soar. In Japan, business leaders played an important role in the fiscal mistakes that have undermined recent policy success, calling for a tax hike that caused growth to stall earlier this year, and a second tax hike next year that would be an even worse error.
关于不良建议:回想一下,一些异常富有的基金经理,曾警告本·伯南克(Ben Bernanke)说,美联储刺激经济的举措可能会造成“货币贬值”;再回想一下,许多企业的首席某某官都曾庄严地宣称,财政赤字是美国面临的最大威胁,解决政府负债问题,经济增长就能腾飞。在日本,财政上的失误抹杀了最近货币政策取得的成功,而商界领袖在财政政策的失误上扮演了重要角色,他们呼吁的增税在今年早些时候导致了经济增长停滞,明年的第二次增税可能会是一个更严重的错误。
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