There is greater concern that cross-border capital mobility makes it harder to collect taxes and enforce financial regulations at home; and that trade agreements, combined with global supply chains, are exacerbating job losses in developed economies. Likewise, global integration means that eurozone distress threatens the US economy, while the US debt-ceiling standoff threatens financial markets everywhere.
可以认定的是，越来越多的主流经济学家都开始注意到不受限制的全球市场所带来的成本。人们也更多关注到跨境资本流动令国内的征税和金融管制变得更加困难；此外贸易协定和全球供应链的出现也使得发达国家的就业岗位不断流失。同样，全球一体化意味着欧元区的困境同样会威胁到美国经济，而美国的债务上限僵局又会影响到全球各国金融市场。