To ease credit, the Bank of England last week reduced its main interest rate to 1.5% - its lowest ever.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

We had a run on a bank in the UK, it was called Northern Rock, last year.

去年,英国的,北岩银行遭到挤兑

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They thought they had the system solved, but then they had a bank run last year.

他们认为已经系统性解决了挤兑问题,但去年却又出现了银行挤兑

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Last month the World Bank predicted a 2% decrease this year - the largest drop since the 1940s.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

And the Morgan bank was the last to hold out.

摩根银行是坚持到最后的。

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European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said last week that "strong vigilance" is needed to contain inflation.

VOA: special.2011.03.11

The Fed has never given loans to anyone other than a depository institution that is a bank until last month, except they did so in the Depression.

上个月，联邦政府已经开始限制贷款业务,除了银行以外的其他金融机构,休想再放出一分钱的贷款，也就是在萧条时政府才会这么做。

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The World Bank and two European development banks agreed last week to provide up to thirty-one billion dollars in aid to central and eastern Europe.

VOA: special.2009.03.06

Tim Geithner's last job was head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

Last week the World Bank also launched a new "open data initiative."

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Asian Development Bank economist Zhuang Jian says strong performance in the last two months of 2009 helped China's export surge.

VOA: standard.2010.01.11

"They intervened last fall in the bank crisis,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.07