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Conventional wisdom has it that large deficits in the United States budget cause interest rates to rise. Two main arguments are given for this claim. According to the first, as the deficit increases, the government will borrow more to make up for the ensuing shortage of funds. Consequently, it is argued, if both the total supply of credit (money available for borrowing) and the amount of credit sought by nongovernment borrowers remain relatively stable, as is often supposed, then the price of credit (the interest rate) will increase. That this is so is suggested by the basic economic principle that if supplies of a commodity (here, credit) remain fixed and demand for that commodity increases, its price will also increase. The second argument supposes that the government will tend to finance its deficits by increasing the money supply with insufficient regard for whether there is enough room for economic growth to enable such an increase to occur without causing inflation. It is then argued that financiers will expect the deficit to cause inflation and will raise interest rates, anticipating that because of inflation the money they lend will be worth less when paid back.
Unfortunately for the first argument, it is unreasonable to assume that nongovernment borrowing and the supply of credit will remain relatively stable. Nongovernment borrowing sometimes decreases. When it does, increased government borrowing will not necessarily push up the total demand for credit. Alternatively, when credit availability increases, for example through greater foreign lending to the United States, then interest rates need not rise, even if both private and government borrowing increase.
The second argument is also problematic. Financing the deficit by increasing the money supply should cause inflation only when there is not enough room for economic growth. Currently, there is no reason to expect deficits to cause inflation. However, since many financiers believe that deficits ordinarily create inflation, then admittedly they will be inclined to raise interest rates to offset mistakenly anticipated inflation. This effect, however, is due to ignorance, not to the deficit itself, and could be lessened by educating financiers on this issue.
It can be inferred from the passage that proponents of the second argument would most likely agree with which of the following statements?
The United States government does not usually care whether or not inflation increases.
People in the United States government generally know very little about economics.
The United States government is sometimes careless in formulating its economic policies.
The United States government sometimes relies too much on the easy availability of foreign credit.
The United States government increases the money supply whenever there is enough room for growth to support the increase.
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推断（Inference）
旨在考察我们对文章的深度理解，以及逻辑推断能力。
想作对这道题目必须清楚地理解第二个论点讲的是什么。在“七经八脉”中有说明，此处不再赘述了。
选项分析：
A选项：美国政府通常不关心是否通货膨胀是否会增加。这个选项做了一个概念偷换，即美国政府不关心的是增加借贷会否引发通货膨胀，而不是不关心通货膨胀是否增加。
B选项：政府的人一般都对经济知之甚少。文章中类似的观点出现在“This effect, however, is due to ignorance, not to the deficit itself, and could be lessened by educating financiers on this issue.”。但是通过这句话我们无法推断出金融家们对经济是知之甚少的。而且值得注意的是，我们这样的解析已经有异议的把金融家和政府人画了等号，文中没有证据表明这两个是可以画等号的。所以这个选项肯定是错误的。
C选项：Correct。美国政府有时指定的经济政策是比较粗心的。这个从“the government will tend to finance its deficits by increasing the money supply with insufficient regard for whether there is enough room for economic growth to enable such an increase to occur without causing inflation. ”可以看出，政府制定的政策是比较不小心的，因为它不管是否会引发通货膨胀。
D选项：美国政府有时候十分依赖外国的贷款。出现类似这个选项的是在原文第二段中“Alternatively, when credit availability increases, for example through greater foreign lending to the United States, then interest rates need not rise, even if both private and government borrowing increase.”，但是没有证据证明美国政府依赖这些贷款，而且这句话也和第一段提到的第二个观点无关。
E选项：美国政府只有在有足够的空间支持这个增加时才会增加金钱的供应。这个选项把第二个论点的意思弄反了。
whenever 每当
whatever 任何
wherever 处处
不是whether 不是whether 不是whether
D whenever there is enough room for growth to support the increase 是指“只有在有足够的空间支持这个增加时”，不是任何时候！！！！！！
不要再把proponent 和opponent 搞反了:)
careless 粗心，A偷换概念
然后政府就想当然的认为一定会发生inflation，然后就提高interest rate去offset这个inflation（潜台词：很有可能增加了货币供给但是并没有导致inflation，即政府盲目的提高了interest rate）
这个题错了...属于没有仔细去看选项导致的问题...
而且原文也比较绕，读的时候没有好好理解
The second argument supposes that the government will tend to finance its deficits by increasing the money supply with insufficient regard for whether there is enough room for economic growth to enable such an increase to occur without causing inflation. government要通过提高货币供给去finance deficit（但是没有考虑到是否有足够的空间for economic growth去enable这个提高发生（没有导致inflation））
E 标记 理解反了
whenever是指每当！！！而不是whether的意思！！！
难在对文章的理解程度上
定位第一段后半段关于第二个理论的讨论，可直接排出b，d，e以及a
对原文的深度理解即可理解院长c
反了
长利率
careless 粗心！！！！1
错点：
第一：问的是proponents of the second argument 而非 作者对第二个argument的看法
第二：A --government will tend to …… with insufficient regard for whether there is enough room for economic growth to enable such an increase to occur without causing inflation causing inflation是这个措施的结果 并不能100%映射出government的态度 C更general一点 没有flaw可攻击
with insufficient regard for..
A选项：美国政府通常不关心是否通货膨胀是否会增加。这个选项做了一个概念偷换，即美国政府不关心的是增加借贷会否引发通货膨胀，而不是不关心通货膨胀是否增加。
啊！偷换概念。
insufficient regard
原文：finance its deficits by increasing the money supply with insufficient regard for whether there is enough room for economic growth to enable such an increase to occur without causing inflation.
重点；insufficient regard = careless ，说明政府有时制定经济政策不够考虑周全
不知道careless 是粗心的意思，还以为是不在乎
【在别处找到了，供参考】
文章的七经八脉：
传统的思维认为大的赤字亏空会让利率上涨---主要有两个论点---介绍两个论点---分别说出这两个论点的问题
这篇文章有一定难度，第一段的两个论点分别是什么意思是比较不容易读懂，如果第一段不明白以后的两段读完会更加一头雾水。这里就现在意译一下第一段两个论点的意思。
第一个论点的意思是说，一般来讲，所有可提供的赊贷的钱和非政府人员想借的钱通常保持稳定(也就是说，一共这么多可以借的钱，要不政府的人借，要不非政府的人借，如果总量和非政府要借的钱保持一致，那么政府要借的更多，自然要起价，和奇货可居，自然起价一个道理)。政府由于赤字要更多的借钱，所以自然就利率上涨了。
第二个论点的意思是说政府为了填补赤字会不管会不会引起通货膨胀的向里面投钱。这样的话投资者会觉得赤字会导致通货膨胀，即过一段时间后拿出来的钱不如以前的值钱了，自然要求长利率了。
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