CAMBRIDGE – Recently, newspaper headlines declared that Greece would have a balanced budget for 2013 as a whole. The news came as quite a shock: Recall that when Greek officials came clean about the true state of their country’s public finances in 2010, the budget deficit was more than 10% of GDP – a moment of statistical honesty that triggered the eurozone debt crisis.
美国剑桥—最近，报纸标题纷纷写道希腊将在2013年实现总体预算平衡。这则消息相当令人震惊：回想一下，2010年希腊官员老实坦白该国公共财政状况时，预算赤字超过了GDP的10%——这一数字真相大白的时刻触发了欧元区债务危机。短短三年希腊就完全抹平了赤字，这看起来过于美好了。