当通缩日益恶化时，如20世纪20年代末到30年代初，直升机撒钱确实是可行的政策选项，但如今并非如此 — — 不管是欧元区还是全球经济。
While helicopter drops are a viable policy option if deflation is spiraling downward, as it was in the late 1920s and early 1930s, that is not the case today – neither in the eurozone nor in the global economy.