To prevent the crash from triggering another Great Depression, governments intervened with massive taxpayer-funded bailouts, causing public-debt burdens to swell further, reaching unsustainable levels in many developed economies. Making matters worse, the US, the United Kingdom, and Japan began implementing quantitative-easing policies – that is, they began printing money – in an attempt to sustain GDP growth.
为了防止崩盘引发新的大萧条，各国政府以巨量纳税人出资的援助计划干预市场，导致公债负担进一步增加，许多发达经济体的公债水平到达到了不可持续的水平。更糟糕的是，美国、英国和日本开始实施量化宽松——即开始印钱——以维持GDP增长。