More than 150,000 people have left their homes in Burkina Faso, many in the capital Ouagadougou, where the United Nations says the amount of rain that fell in one day last week equals one-quarter of the nation's average annual rainfall.

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This has happened so many times in history that governments around the world now regulate banks and tell them that they have to hold a minimum amount of reserves and have a minimum amount of capital.

这在历史上已经发生多次了,如今,各国政府都在进行银行监管,并且告诉他们,他们必须留存最小金额的准备金,以及最小金额的资本金

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They have a formula that defines how much Tier I and Tier II capital a bank has to hold and the amount depends on the risk class of their investments.

有一个公式可以计算出,一个银行到底需要持有多少一级和二级资本,其数量取决于他们投资项目的风险等级

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Well, that leakage--that 1.5% or 2% that you pay your hedge fund manager- plus the 20% of profits really reduces the amount of return that's available for the owners of capital.

系统的损耗,大约1.5%或2%的管理费率,用来支付给对冲基金经理,加上20%的利润提成,显著减少了资本所有者,可以得到的回报

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