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如何改善美国财政状况

Aug 17, 2010 Simon Johnson , James Kwak

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美国财政赤字巨大，今年可能达到1.3万亿美元（相当于GDP的10%），且长期前景亦不容乐观。据国会预算办公司（CBO）的数据，到2035年，光是社保和医保就将耗尽税收收入。

在短期，美国可以通过融资来解决赤字问题。事实上，最近美国国债利率已降低至历史最低水平。但如果财政状况不能有所改善，长期以往美国与全世界均将面临很大麻烦。因此，美国急需实现四个转变。

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Simon Johnson

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Simon Johnson, a former chief economist of the IMF, is a professor at MIT Sloan, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and co-founder of a leading economics blog, The Baseline Scenario. He is the co-author, with Jonathan Gruber of Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive the Economic Growth and the American Dream.

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James Kwak is an entrepreneur and a student at Yale Law School. He is a co-author, with Simon Johnson, of 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and The Next Financial Meltdown.

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