The national debt has inspired a million boring speeches and exactly one witty remark. “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop,” says Stein’s Law. Coined by the economist Herbert Stein, an adviser to US president Richard Nixon, it was originally about the balance of payments but he used the precise phrase in 1986 to warn Congress that the federal debt cannot rise without limit.
国债引发了一百万场无聊的演讲和一句妙语。“如果一件事不能永远持续下去，它就会停下来。”这就是斯坦定律(Stein’s Law)，由美国总统理查德•尼克松(Richard Nixon)的顾问、manbetx20客户端下载 学家赫伯特•斯坦(Herbert Stein)提出，最初是关于国际收支的，但在1986年他正是用这句话来警告美国国会，联邦债务不可能无限制增加。
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