DELHI – In a recent exchange between former US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers on the plausibility of secular stagnation, one point of agreement was the need for a global perspective. But from that perspective, the hypothesis of secular stagnation in the period leading up to the 2008 global financial crisis is at odds with a central fact: global growth averaged more than 4% – the highest rate on record.
德里—在美联储前主席伯南克（Ben Bernanke）和美国财政部前部长萨默斯（Larry Summers）关于长期停滞可能性的最新交流中，双方都同意需要从全球角度看待这一问题。但从这个角度看2008年全球金融危机前的长期停滞假说与核心事实不符：全球增长平均达到了4%以上，是有记录以来的最高值。