J. Bradford DeLong, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the author of Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century (Basic Books, 2022). He was Deputy Assistant US Treasury Secretary during the Clinton Administration, where he was heavily involved in budget and trade negotiations. His role in designing the bailout of Mexico during the 1994 peso crisis placed him at the forefront of Latin America’s transformation into a region of open economies, and cemented his stature as a leading voice in economic-policy debates.
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我一直认为，巴拉克·奥巴马任命前共和党参议员艾伦·辛普森（Alan Simpson）为削减赤字委员会联席主席是个严重错误。辛普森在做参议员时便以激进的预算政策著称。事实上，对于共和党总统提出的提高预算、增加赤字的议案，辛普森从不反对；而对于民主党总统提出的削减赤字议案，辛普森则总是不遗余力地阻挠。
你决不可能让一个纵火犯去充当消防队长，但我认为奥巴马在任命全国财政责任和改革委员会（National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform）联席主席时恰恰这么做了。
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