The major question today should be whether the failure of capital markets (and the implications for government debt) after 2007 has been as severe as during the Great Depression. At the moment, there has not been widespread revulsion against all government debt, and some countries today clearly have better access than others to capital markets, enabling them to finance their deficits externally.
今日的主要问题在于，2007年之后累积起来的资本市场失灵（以及由此而来的政府负债问题），是否已经严重到大萧条的水平。眼下，尚未出现对所有政府债的普遍厌恶，某些国家在资本市场的信誉也相对较好，它们还可以由外部筹措资金来支付赤字。