The money is for immediate relief and long-term recovery efforts.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

Even though the deposits are short-term and the depositor can get the money at any time, the depositor is earning interest of a level that can only be made on long-term loans.

即使是短期存款,存款人可以随时取走存款,存款人也可获取仅从长期贷款中,才可得到的利息水平

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But, when you move from lending money to the government -either short-term with bills or longer term with bonds -to investing in the equity market, there's a stunning difference in terms of the returns.

当你转变投资方式,从借钱给政府,即通过短期债券或长期债券的形式,变成投资于股票市场,回报率的差别会大到让你吃惊

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

All seem to agree that the money should be used for long term development needs like roads, education,and healthcare.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

Your banker understands that your business can't pay the money back and that the bank has a reputation in the community of helping business people, so they won't ask for the money even though it's a short-term loan that they made to you.

他会理解,你的公司可能无法还钱,在业界里银行向来,有帮助企业家的美名,所以他们不会要求你还钱,即使他们借给你的是短期贷款

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The economy needs help. But rather than stimulating the economy by providing an improved incentives to work and invest, we have been devoting trillions of dollars in taxpayer money to expanding and creating permanent long-term government spending programs and income-redistribution mechanisms,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.03