It was matched by a dire performance from the finance arm of the us industrial behemoth General Electric, whose profits dipped 42% thanks to bad credit card debts and business loans.

美国工业巨头通用电气公司旗下的金融部门的业绩同样悲惨。受累于不良的信用卡债务和商业贷款，通用电气公司第三季利润下滑42%。

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The first bars the ECB from creating money to finance deficits. The second forbids countries from assuming the debts of others (the “no bail-out” clause).

第一条禁止欧洲央行创造货币填补赤字，第二条禁止各国接管别国债务（即“不予救助”条款）。

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Liberalised global finance and rising inequality may thus have led to surging public debts.

全球金融自由化和收入不平等的加剧可能是导致公共债务上升的原因。

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Greece needs to borrow more than seventy billion dollars this year to finance its budget and refinance its debts.

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K. Pao can afford it and to carry such high interest debts to finance this new extravaganza?

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Since then many countries have been creating an illusion of continual progress by running up hefty debts to finance their welfare states.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

Yet this makes it hard even for companies with healthy order books to service their debts or to finance their trade.

ECONOMIST: Still sick and gloomy, now rebellious