His firms are indebted-so much so that the credit crunch of 2008 is thought nearly to have crushed them.

巴克里的公司负债累累—在2008年时，他的公司差点就被信贷紧缩压倒。

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FINANCIAL writers gorged themselves on the credit crunch of 2007 and 2008, producing many different kinds of books.

金融作家们在2007年和2008年的信贷危机上做足了文章，写出了众多种类各异的书。

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The Shard, for example, was put on hold in 2007 after the first tremors of the credit crunch; work only restarted after an infusion of private money from a Qatari consortium in 2008.

2007年第一波信用危机出现后，碎片大厦项目被暂时搁置，直到2008年，卡塔尔的一个财团注入私人资金后项目才得以重新启动。

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Clydesdale had prided itself on sailing a careful route through the credit crunch of 2008 and 2009.

BBC: Clydesdale Bank

We are all understandably interested in what Bank of England deputy governor Paul Tucker and other senior officials may or may not have said about the Libor to Bob Diamond or other bankers, at the height of the credit crunch in 2008.

BBC: Inconvenient truths about Libor

Three years from now, we won't be worrying at all about the demons of the 2008 credit crunch.

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