The agreement that broke the impasse over the US debt ceiling came with hours to spare before the Treasury’s deadline. From today, had no agreement been reached, the US government would have had to stop meeting some of its obligations. This months-long pantomime may call to mind Winston Churchill’s remark that Amer- icans can always be counted on to do the right thing, after all other possibilities have been exhausted. That judgment would be too kind.
在財政部規定的最後期限前幾個小時，打破了美國債務上限談判僵局的協議終於達成。若未能如期達成協議，從今天起，美國政府將不得不停止償還部分債務。這場長達數月的鬧劇，或許會讓人想起溫斯頓•丘吉爾(Winston Churchill)的一句名言：人們總是可以指望美國作出正確的決定——在試遍其它所有可能性之後。這種評價有點太客氣了。
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