Obviously, recent trends – a significant decline in the unemployment rate and a reasonably high and accelerating rate of economic growth – cast doubt on Krugman’s macroeconomic diagnosis (though not on his progressive politics). And the same trends have been apparent in the United Kingdom, where Prime Minister David Cameron’s government has cut the structural budget deficit from 8.4% of potential GDP in 2010 to 4.1% in 2014, while the unemployment rate has fallen from 7.9% when Cameron took office to 6%, according to the most recent data for the fall of 2014.
显然，近期趋势——失业率的大幅下降以及相当漂亮并且还在加速的经济增长——让克鲁格曼的宏观经济诊断令人质疑（但他的进步政治学除外）。而相同的趋势在英国也显而易见，首相卡梅伦政府将结构性预算赤字从2010年占潜在GDP的8.4%下降至2014年的4.1%，而失业率则从卡梅伦执政初期的7.9%下降至6%（2014年秋季最新数据）。