"If the Fed goes out and buys longer-term Treasury securities, and buys them in significant amounts, what will happen is longer-term interest rates should come down.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

It's contracting so the Fed is trying to prevent a serious recession by cutting interest rates; they've been cutting them rapidly.

它在减小,所以美联储正在试图阻止一个因为利率缩减,而产生的严重的经济衰退；,但是他们最近一直在降低利率。

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Once interest rates hit zero you can't cut them anymore and that's what the Fed wants to do.

一旦利率下跌至零,你就再也不能减少它们,而且这正是联邦试图做的事情。

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"I feel so strongly that this country is headed, fiscally,in a horrible direction, and for the first time in my adult life, we have a Congress that will not listen to the people, and we are fed up and we want them to listen to us."

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

For four days, the three of them fed on the body and blood of the cabin boy.

整整四天，他们三个,靠派克的尸体和血液为食。

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The Fed has these auctions but it auctions them off at what price the public will pay, so the Fed doesn't determine the term structure.

联储局公开拍卖债券,但只有当公众愿意以特定价格支付时,这些债券才能成交,所以联储局不能决定期限结构

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They can't sell them to get money so the Fed is saying fine we'll just take those and we'll give you Treasury bills which are completely everyone trusts them.

他们不能够卖掉资产来获取金钱,所以美联储说，好吧，我们拿走你的资产,给你完整的国库券,每个人都相信他们。

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