The Congressional Budget Office projects that the country’s fiscal deficit will average 5% of GDP for the rest of the decade, driving government debt to 90% of GDP, from less than 60% of GDP in 2009. While those large fiscal deficits will be a major problem for the US economy if nothing is done to bring them down, they need not be inflationary.
那些强调通胀风险的人经常会用美国庞大的预算赤字作口实。而国会预算办公室则预计美国的财政赤字将在未来十年平均维持在GDP的5%左右，并因此导致政府债务占GDP的比例从2009年度的低于60%上升到90%。假如我们不采取削减措施的话，这笔巨额财政赤字将成为影响美国经济的重大问题，但即便如此，它却不会成为通货膨胀的诱因。