Osborne’s defenders might make the same argument for his fiscal policy. A credible policy of fiscal consolidation, they might say, will have the same exhilarating effect on confidence as fiscal consolidation itself.
奥斯本的辩护者可以如法炮制为他的财政政策辩护。他们可以这样说，可信的财政整合政策对信心所造成的振奋作用与财政整合本身是一样的。