Scores of American banks have failed since the start of the financial crisis that helped plunge the United States into a deep and prolonged recession.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

All that kind of thing might put this economy into a recession.

所有的事情最终会导致经济衰退

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But then the U.S. crashed into a huge well actually it was as worldwide recession of 1981-2.This was the biggest recession since The Great Depression.

但是之后，美国卷进了一个巨大的,事实上，是个世界范围内的经济衰退,于1981-1982年，这是自从大萧条以来,最严重的一次经济衰退。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said AIG's bankruptcy would have made a dire financial crisis far worse, possibly turning an economic recession into a prolonged depression.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Central banks around this time I think it was under the leadership of Paul Volker who was the Federal Reserve Chairman they raised interest rates to kill inflation and they threw the world into a huge recession.

在这个时期，中央银行,我认为正处于保罗？沃尔克的领导之下,保罗是美联储的主席,他们提升了利率来抵制通货膨胀,然而却将整个世界都卷入了一场巨大的经济衰退。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选