So we are caught between a financially unsustainable pattern of global demand and the need for politically difficult changes in many countries’ domestic policies. All politics is local, and there is no local constituency for the global economy, so what triumphs often erodes global imbalances further.
因此我们陷入了一个困境之中，一边是经济上不可持续的全球需求模式，一边是难以改变的各国国内政策。所有政治都着眼于国内，没有人去为全球经济负责，因此所谓的国家胜利通常都只会令到全球不平衡的情况更加恶化。