But this crisis was born of economic excess as well as financial folly; given the torrent of capital flowing into America, Britain, Spain and so on, almost any financial system would have gone wrong.

但这场危机来源于经济过剩和金融失误；当资本洪流流入美国、英国和西班牙等国家，几乎任何金融系统都将被破坏。

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Bookmaker William Hill is so impressed by Paul's predictive powers that it was offering even odds that he will pick the winner of the final on Sunday, between Spain and Holland.

赌博公司威廉·希尔对保罗的预测能力的印象是如此之深刻，以至于开出了它将在在周日西班牙对荷兰的决赛中选择谁的赔率。

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But this is not 1996. Spain has fewer public companies to privatise and cannot count so much on European Union money.

但是现在不是1996年——现在的西班牙没有那么多的上市公司来私有化，也不能那么依赖欧盟的资金源。

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This is very different from Greece, Ireland, Spain and so on who simply did not have this room for maneuver.

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Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Spain and so on.

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The same duty would fall on big international Italian companies in Italy, or Spanish ones in Spain, and so on.

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