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.
國債引發了一百萬場無聊的演講和一句妙語?！叭绻患虏荒苡肋h持續下去，它就會停下來。”這就是斯坦定律(Stein’s Law)，由美國總統理查德?尼克松(Richard Nixon)的顧問、經濟學家赫伯特?斯坦(Herbert Stein)提出，最初是關于國際收支的，但在1986年他正是用這句話來警告美國國會，聯邦債務不可能無限制增加。
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