拖延战术解决不了美国的根本问题

    国会议员们再次把重心放在了一系列短期解决方案上，而这些方案可能带来许多遗留问题。对此，我要郑重建议他们去看看英国六人喜剧团体蒙提•派森（Monty Python）早年间的喜剧片段，讲是一位骑士（由约翰•克里斯扮演）令人费解地把自己置于危险境地。

    随后，亚瑟王发现了这位一瘸一拐的骑士，但后者拒绝承认自己的困境。他自信地说，“我只是擦破了点儿皮”，而且每挨一下打，他都会说那只是“皮外伤”。他还荒谬地宣称自己“不可战胜”，之后，这位骑士遭到了遗弃，既动弹不得，又无足轻重。

    美国民众对国会的支持率已降至历史最低水平。国会既没有果断提高债务上限，也没有适时地通过一项无附加条件的延续性解决方案来让政府重新开始运转，这将再次给经济带来一些“自找的”创伤。一旦这些创伤的影响叠加在一起，它们就再也无法轻易抹去。（财富中文网）

    本文作者穆罕默德•埃尔-埃利安是太平洋投资管理公司（PIMCO）首席执行官兼联合首席投资官。

    译者：Charlie  

    As they pivot to yet another set of short-term solutions that risk leaving too many open issues, Congress would be well advised to watch an old Monty Python clip in which a knight (played by John Cleese) unexplainably puts himself in harm's way.

    Sequentially robbed of his limps by King Arthur, the knight refuses to come to terms with his predicament. He confidently declares "tis is but a scratch," treating each blow as just a "flesh wound." And having absurdly announced that he is "invincible," the knight is left behind immobile and irrelevant.

    Congress has already seen its standing among Americans fall to record lows. By failing to decisively lift the debt ceiling and properly pass a clean Continuing Resolution to reopen government, it would inflict on the economy yet another set of self-inflicted wounds whose cumulative and collective impact cannot be easily and readily discounted.

    Mohamed A. El-Erian is the CEO and co-chief investment officer of PIMCO.