By contrast, a gap between supply and demand when the corresponding excess demand is for financial assets is a recipe for economic meltdown. There is, after all, no easy way that unemployed workers can start producing the assets – money and bonds that not only are rated investment-grade, but really are – that financial markets are not adequately supplying.
与此相反，由当前对金融资产过度需求所引发的供需缺口则是经济衰退之源。毕竟那些失业工人无法轻易生产出那些金融市场无法足量提供的资产——须知货币和债券都需要专业投资级别的知识。因此失业者的数量要多于重新就业的劳动者数量。而随着就业和收入下降，对商品的消费也进一步下跌，整个经济随之逐步陷入萧条。