What is true of cars applies to the economy: arcane issues are for specialists. Yet in recent years, topics about which most people had never heard or cared – for example, securitization, credit default swaps, and the European payment system known as Target 2 – have imposed themselves on public debate, forcing ordinary people to grapple with their intricacies.
车的比方也可以用在经济上：难题应该由专家解决。但近几年来，大部分人从未听说或关注过的话题——比如证券化、信用违约互换和被称为Target 2的欧洲支付系统——进入了公共讨论的范围，迫使普通人绞尽脑汁要弄懂其中的难解之处。