Although the US had plenty of financial problems, financing its external deficit was not one of them. On the contrary, the dollar was one of the few clear beneficiaries of the crisis, as foreign investors, desperate for liquidity, piled into US Treasury bonds.
危机确实发生了，但并不是全球失衡危机。美国金融问题重重，但为外债融资已不再是其中之一。相反，美元成为极少数显而易见的危机受益者之一，因为急切地渴望流动性的外国投资者纷纷涌向美国国债。