Global leadership today seems to be held hostage by financial interests and associated media, ideologists, and oligarchs whose political influence enables them to secure more rents and pay lower taxes in what must truly be the most vicious of circles. Indeed, the menace that now confronts us is not public debt or inflation, but a downward economic spiral that will be increasingly difficult to reverse.
如今，全球领导人似乎沦为了金融利益集团和相关媒体、智囊和政治寡头（他们利用政治影响力获得更多的租金，支付更少的税收，这绝对是最为恶性的循环）的人质。事实上，当前我们所面对的威胁并不是公共债务和通胀，而是越来越难以扭转的下跌经济螺旋。