The threat of a US default may well end in a political agreement to raise the US government’s debt ceiling, as occurred in 2011. But, whatever the outcome, the latest episode makes it abundantly clear that our globalized world deserves a better international monetary system than the current “non-system” that evolved in an ad hoc manner after the collapse in the early 1970’s of the initial Bretton Woods arrangements.
美国违约的风险很有可能因为关于提高美国政府债务上限形成了政治一致而结束，这一幕在2011年就发生过。但是，无论结果如何，最近的债务上限之争充分表明，我们的全球化的世界应该有一套更好的国际货币体系。当前的“无体系”实际上是20世纪70年代初布雷顿森林体系崩溃后的权宜之计。