On Tuesday,President Obama nominated Ben Bernanke for a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

If you'll allow me I will talk first about just what is a central bank such as the Federal Reserve and what do they do.

如果可以的话，我将首先谈谈,中央银行到底是什么,比如说联邦储备局，还有他们都做什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It started out that was as, what we call, fractional reserve.

这就出现了,所谓的,部分储备金制度

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The money will be held as an emergency reserve.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

What they want to do is expand the actions of the Fed, so that they're not--you can describe the Federal Reserve or any central bank, traditionally, as a banker's bank the Bank of England was the first central bank and it made banks keep deposits at the Bank of England.

他们想做的是扩大政府对经济的调控范围，这样政府就能将联邦储蓄,或者其他中央银行变成银行的银行,英国银行是第一个中央银行,他使其他银行将钱存放在它这里。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"We have seen too many elections around the world and it is why we reserve a final assessment to an end of a process not as the process is still unfolding,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.22