When the Fund gets the big boys to complain by saying perfectly sensible things, it must be doing something right. True, the Fund has been notably soft on the United States of late, downplaying the continuing vulnerabilities posed by the gaping US current account and trade deficits.
当国际货币基金组织完全合理的声明招来大国怨恨的时候，它的所作所为必然含有某些正确的因素。没错，基金组织近来对待美国的态度十分软弱，对美国经常帐户和贸易赤字缺口造成的持续疲软采取视而不见的态度。很多人认为这一迫在眉睫的问题很快就会被重新提出来。