BERKELEY – Former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers had a good line at the International Monetary Fund meetings this year: governments, he said, are trying to treat a broken ankle when the patient is facing organ failure. Summers was criticizing Europe’s focus on the second-order issue of Greece while far graver imbalances – between the EU’s north and south, and between reckless banks’ creditors and governments that failed to regulate properly – worsen with each passing day.
伯克利——前美国财政部长萨默斯（Lawrence Summers）在今年的IMF会议上颇有想象力：他说，各国政府的做法，就好比是病人明明是脏器问题，却在给他治脚踝。萨默斯是在批评欧洲将注意力集中在希腊问题这样的次要问题上，而更危险的失衡——北欧和南欧之间的失衡、鲁莽银行债权人与监管不力的政府之间的失衡——却在一天比一天更严重。