政府正在处理失误的可负担性危机。
他们应该提高收入，而不是压制价格。
插图：Álvaro Bernis三轮车、面包暴动和“社会主义骚动”：这些全球性的不满表达，据耶鲁大学经济学家欧文·费舍尔在1912年所主张，有着共同的原因。
Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis They should lift incomes, not suppress prices Illustration: Álvaro Bernis TRIKES, BREAD riots and “socialistic agitation”: these worldwide expressions of discontent had a common cause, argued Irving Fisher, an economist at Yale University, in 1912.
这种共同的不满是生活成本的上升。
That shared grievance was the rising “cost of living”.
这一问题在加拿大和印度、法国和日本等相距甚远的地方都被感受到。
The problem was felt in places as far apart as Canada and India, France and Japan.
期望任何单一地区来应对这些起作用的力量，几乎就像期望“芬迪湾的村民试图阻止潮汐上涨”一样荒谬。
To expect any single locality to tackle the forces at work was almost as absurd as expecting “villagers on the Bay of Fundy to attempt to prevent the rise of the tides”.
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他们现在正尽情享受生活很容易夸大他们的经济困境印度的庆祝活动今年将更昂贵为什么股份成为新的砖瓦寻找税收阿尔法
They are living it up now It is easy to exaggerate their economic woes Indian celebrations will be more expensive this year Why shares are the new bricks and mortar In search of tax alpha