I raise all of this because Krugman took a victory lap in his end-of-2014 column on “The Obama Recovery.” The recovery, according to Krugman, has come not despite the austerity he railed against for years, but because we “seem to have stopped tightening the screws: Public spending isn’t surging, but at least it has stopped falling.
我罗列这些是因为克鲁格曼在他的2014年年底专栏《奥巴马复苏》（The Obama Recovery）中俨然一副胜利者的姿态。按他的说法，复苏并不是来自他多年来一直反对的紧缩，而是因为我们“似乎已经停止拧紧螺丝：公共支出没有大幅增加，但至少也不再下降。经济也因此大有起色。”