前欧洲央行行长马里奥·德拉吉表示，如果政治家们能够就削减赤字达成一致，美国就不必费太大力气来稳定其债务。
The US wouldn’t have to try too hard to stabilize its debt if politicians could agree on deficit cuts, according to former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi.
鉴于人工智能正在推动世界最大经济体的扩张，他在去年认为，“你不需要付出非凡的努力”就能减少该国的巨额借款。
Given how artificial intelligence is driving expansion in the world’s biggest economy, he considered last year that “you don’t need extraordinary efforts” to bring down the country’s mountain of borrowings.
德拉吉周四对彭博社总编辑约翰·米克尔思韦特表示：“在10年内实现大约100%的债务占GDP比率所需的生产力增长数字一点也不大。一切似乎都是可行的，但这取决于一个条件，即美国的赤字不会继续增加。”
“The numbers for the increase in productivity needed to have a debt-to-GDP ratio of about a 100% in 10 years time are not big at all,” Draghi told Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait on Thursday. “Everything seemed feasible, but it hinged on one condition, i.e. that the US deficit wouldn’t keep increasing.”
就在他发表此番言论的同一周，国际货币基金组织总裁克里斯塔利娜·格奥尔基耶娃暗示，美国当局不能仅仅依靠强劲增长来解决该国的财政状况。现任欧洲央行行长克里斯蒂娜·拉加德也提到了美国赤字的规模，称其“需要得到解决”。曾任意大利财政部长的德拉吉后来在大流行期间担任总理，他指出美国的资金缺口不断扩大，而华盛顿没有人为此采取任何行动。
He spoke in the same week that International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva suggested that American authorities can’t just rely on strong growth to fix the country’s fiscal situation. Current ECB president Christine Lagarde also cited the size of the US deficit, saying that it “needs to be tackled.”Draghi, a former head of the Italian treasury and later prime minister during the pandemic, observed that the US shortfall keeps on rising and no-one in Washington is doing anything about it.
他说：“它在过去一年里大幅上升，债务发行创下新纪录，与此同时，你听不到任何关于中期需要采取一些紧缩努力的言论。不幸的是，你在政治辩论的两派中都听不到任何这样的声音。”今年2月，国会预算办公室警告称，美国2030年的债务占国内生产总值比率将超过1946年创下的106%的纪录。美国公共债务总额首次突破40万亿美元，在不到五年的时间里飙升了三分之一。
“It went up substantially in the last year, debt issuance reached new records and at the same time you don’t hear anything saying that some retrenchment effort in the medium term will be needed,” he said. “Unfortunately you don’t hear anything by both sides of the political discussion.”In February, the Congressional Budget Office warned the US debt-to-gross-domestic- product ratio in 2030 will exceed a record 106% set in 1946. Total US public debt has surpassed $40 trillion for the first time, with a surge of a third in less than five years.