Britain was everything a country should not be in a credit crunch: debt-ridden, reliant on foreign savings, chock-full of Banks and estate agents, and short of firms that made tangible stuff.

英国应该是最不可能遭受信贷紧缩的国家。而银根紧缩使得各国债台高筑，依赖外国储蓄，国内充斥着银行和房产机构，但缺乏拥有实质性价值的公司。

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Thanks to low domestic savings rates and profligate government spending, the U.S. economy is reliant on continuous influxes of foreign investment to provide the capital necessary for growth.

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