CAMBRIDGE – The Greek government needs to escape from an otherwise impossible situation. It has an unmanageable level of government debt (150% of GDP, rising this year by ten percentage points), a collapsing economy (with GDP down by more than 7% this year, pushing the unemployment rate up to 16%), a chronic balance-of-payments deficit (now at 8% of GDP), and insolvent banks that are rapidly losing deposits.
发自剑桥——希腊政府需要摆脱的是一个完全没有其他活路可走的困境。它拥有一个棘手的政府负债（相当于GDP的150%，今年内已经递增了10%），一个陷入崩溃的经济（随着GDP下跌了7%，失业率上升到16%），一个长期存在的政府收支赤字（目前相当于GDP的8%），以及一批资不抵债且在迅速流失存款的银行。