Of course, the discipline of the market is not perfect: the bond market does not “see” implicit future liabilities (like promised pension payments) to any great degree. Nevertheless, this enforced fiscal discipline, combined with individual states’ own internal budgetary procedures, has prevented a large scale state-level fiscal crisis from occurring in the US since the Great Depression.
诚然，市场控制尚不完善：债券市场未“预见”大量的隐性远期负债（如承诺支付退休金）。然而，结合各州自己的内部预算程序，这一强化的财政纪律已防止美国出现大萧条以来大规模的州级财政危机。