Having said that, funny I was talking to somebody the other day who works for the Academy of American Poets.
有一天很巧,我遇到了一个朋友,她在美国诗人协会工作。
Here's my last slide The National Association of Homebuilders surveys its membership to ask them what is the traffic of homebuyers?
最后一张幻灯片,全美房屋建造协会调查了它的成员,询问他们购房者参观量的情况
I am also president of Mathis Brothers Software Pathology We exam websites and software for unfair outcomes.
我也是马西斯&布拉泽斯软件病理协会的会长,协会主要研究网站与软件中存在的不公平现象。
We won't talk about the BCS rankings, though So the idea here is a pretty simple one.
我们并不是在说英国计算机协会排名,所以我们要讲的概念很简单。
Martin Seligman It was started in 1998, when Martin Seligman was the president of the American Psychological Association.
始于1998年,美国心理学协会当时的主席。
It used to be employed by the Space Research Center at the specific Institute of Technology.
用于“空间研究中心“,这是一个特殊的技术协会。
There are two reasons, for the most part, why they are coming: they're coming to find poems that will be relevant, equal to the occasion of a death or a marriage.
主要有两个原因能解释为什么,人们访问美国诗人协会网站:,人们是来寻找一些诗歌,一些有关,死亡与婚姻等的诗歌。
I mean, unless you're in the Yale entrepreneurial society ? who can name the CEOs of many companies?
换种说法吧,除非你是在耶鲁的企业家协会,否则你能叫出多少公司CEO的名字呢?
Once they freed up interest rates, interest rates on deposits started soaring and banks started taking greater risks, particularly Savings and Loans.
一旦他们被放任去抬高利率,储蓄利率将会飞速攀升,而银行就会承载着更大风险,尤其对于储蓄贷款协会
This also came from a U.K. movement called the Building Society Movement, which spread to the U.S.
储贷协会也是源自英国的一场运动,叫做建房互助协会运动,同样也传到了美国
So Savings and Loans, traditionally, have made most of their loans in the form of home mortgages.
所以传统的储贷协会,所发放的贷款多为购房抵押贷款
A recent example of overselling: the National Association of Realtors has been running ads saying that home prices have always doubled every ten years.
举一个最近这方面的例子,全国房地产经纪人协会,投放了一则广告,内容是,在过去,房价每十年就能翻一番
Just want to mention very briefly another opportunity: We've just started the international positive psychology association.
再简单介绍另一个机会:,我们刚刚创办国际积极心理学协会。
Northern Rock was a British building society that was investing in subprime paper in the U.S.
北岩银行是英国的一家建房互助协会,它曾在美国投资次级债券
Saving and Loan Associations were making bad loans, especially in Texas, but in lots of other states as well -this is when Ronald Reagan was President.
当时储蓄贷款协会出现了不良贷款,尤其在德克萨斯州,不过在其它很多州也同时出现了...,当时的总统是罗纳德·里根
So, most states would essentially adopt what the NAIC says, otherwise--they're not going to figure it all-- they can't claim to beat--it would be rational to do that.
因此大部分州基本上都会采纳这些建议,不然的话,各州要自己进行全盘考虑,若要推翻保协会的建议,那将是不理智的
There's an organization called Gambler's Anonymous, which is like Alcoholic's Anonymous.
有个叫匿名戒赌协会的组织,就好像匿名戒酒协会一样
Like Maslow, he too, was the President of American Psychological Association.
和马斯洛一样,也是美国心理协会会长。
There's a special student membership so I encourage you to check out the international positive psychology association and join to stay abreast of the latest development in the field of positive psychology.
协会设立特别的学生会员,我鼓励你们了解一下,国际积极心理学协会,加入并把握积极心理学领域,最新发展动态。
It helps people who are really in trouble.
协会帮助在困境中的人
Savings and Loans are the same as Building Societies, but the idea--the original idea and also the general idea today -is that these are banks set up for small savers in order that they can buy a house.
储贷协会和建房互助协会是一回事,其初衷以及现在的一般理念是,这些银行的建立是为了,让小额储蓄者买得起房子
This is something that's very important in the United States because, as I mentioned, insurance regulation is divided up over the fifty states and the problem that that creates is-- it's a nightmare for insurance companies because every different state has different laws.
在美国,这个协会是非常重要的,因为,就像我所提及的,保险监管被分散到了五十个州,这对任何一个保险公司而言,都是一个噩梦,因为各州法律各有不同
I asked you in the final question to just get on a couple of websites, The Federal Reserve and the ICI, which is a mutual industry website, and write a little bit, a couple paragraphs about what this industry is really achieving or how it's trending.
我最后再要求你们,去浏览下一些网站,像联邦储备和美国投资公司协会网站,都是共同基金产业的网站,然后稍微写几段,关于这个产业的成就,或者他们的发展趋势。
Also, about regulation, I want to mention the NAIC-- it's a very important institution-- that stands for National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
同样的,关于监管,我要说说NAIC,它是一个非常重要的机构,它的全称是美国保险监督官协会
Recognizing this problem, the insurance commissioners in the various states have decided to form an organization, that's the NAIC, and they hold regular conferences.
在意识到这个问题的时候,各州的保险监督官,就决定去建立一个组织,就是美国保险监督官协会,并定期开会
People on Wall Street found that difficult to say -Federal National Mortgage Corporation- so they nicknamed it Fannie Mae; it sounds like a woman's name.
华尔街的人觉得这名字很拗口,联邦,国民,抵押,贷款,协会,所以给它起了个昵称,房利美,这听起来像个女性名字
In 2007, third quarter, they were $1.868 trillion -that's almost 2 trillion dollars, so they're much smaller -savings banks and savings and loans--than the commercial banks.
007年第三季度,它们的总资产合计1.868万亿美元,接近2万亿美元,所以它们要小得多,储蓄银行和储贷协会要比商业银行小得多
It's like a Savings and Loan Association except that credit unions are created by some entity, some club or group, and they're not open to the whole public.
这有点像储贷协会,不同点在于,信用合作社是由某个独立群体所创建的,比如社团或集体组织,它不面向整个社会公众
Saving and Loan Associations, by the way, no longer exclusively limit themselves to mortgage lending -either they do home improvement lending and auto loans and the like as well.
顺便提一下,储贷协会,现在也不仅限于发放抵押贷款,他们也发放住房装修贷款,及汽车消费贷款之类的
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