The second danger&#160;is that governments will continue to see it as their duty to decide which firms to save and which to let fail. A line must be drawn between a time of crisis, when emergency measures are needed to avert economic collapse, and normal circumstances, in which the full force of market mechanisms applies.
利息偿付在预算中的比重正不断增大，而当利率再次开始上升之际，其比例还将继续上升。如果政府在财政稳固方面没有强有力的政治承诺和可信的计划，那么还存在着这样一种明显风险：即某一时刻，主权债务的收益率将会显著上升，这将会给经济和政治两方面带来不利影响。