The consequence, however, was to tie up trillions of dollars that could be spent on helping them combat the worst effects of the financial crisis.

然而，其后果是占用了本可以用来帮助它们应对此次金融危机最严重影响的数万亿美元资金。

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The rationale is that you will be more objective when you do not have a financial tie and therefore an emotional tie to the investment.

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Are you moonlighting as a PR agent for Merck? (No question that Forbes has some financial tie with Merck given their whitewash of the Mumps vaccine whistle-blower suit).

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Cross border equity tie-ups between financial firms have enjoyed mixed success to put it mildly (think HSBC and Household Finance in the 2000s, or Deutsche Bank and Morgan Grenfell in the 1990s).

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