In today’s crisis, muddling through would be a recipe for a continuation of the crisis and secular stagnation of the type once described by Alvin Hansen, a contemporary of Keynes. Hansen predicted that capitalism would suffer from a permanent underinvestment crisis.
面对当下的经济危机，采取“混”下去的方式将使危机继续，经济长期停滞不前。这正是凯恩斯同时代的经济学家埃尔文·汉森所描述的情况。汉森预测资本主义将面临永久性的投资不足危机。由于其股权亏损，银行将按比例减少其资产负债，这更将加重全球业已发生的信贷危机。