And,despite continuing bank failures, Geithner says America's financial system has also been rescued and a catastrophic credit squeeze has eased.

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Bank failures occur when there's not enough gold in the vault and then people start asking for the gold and the goldsmith banker doesn't have it to give out.

当金库没有足够的黄金时,银行就会倒闭,因为当人们开始索要黄金时,金匠银行家却拿不出来

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And there is a lot of people that want to place the blame on the accounting for those, for the bank failures

好多人想将银行破产等这些归咎于会计记帐，

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