STOCKHOLM – The looming global recession has brought government intervention to save failing companies to the forefront of economic policy. In a speech just prior to the recent G-20 summit, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned President-elect Barack Obama against bailing out America’s struggling Big Three automakers, arguing that global competition has made their decline irreversible.
斯德哥尔摩－日益逼近的全球衰退使挽救崩溃中的公司的政府干预，成为经济政策的中心。就在最近的20国首脑峰会之前的一次演讲中，英国首相戈登·布朗警告美国当选总统巴拉克·奥巴马，不要援救陷入困境中的美国三大汽车制造商，他认为全球竞争使这三大汽车制造商的衰落无法逆转；因此，援救它们只能用纳税人付出的巨额成本，来延缓其必然衰落的趋势。