I believe that Alan Greenspan is right in claiming that the main cause of the housing boom was not the Fed's actions but the worldwide low interest rates due to an abundant world supply of savings.

我相信艾伦·格林斯潘的话是对的，即主张房市的急速繁荣主要不是因为美联储的原因，而是因为全球存款储备的充裕供应引致的全世界的低利率。

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The main reason it was dreamed up (by Alan Guth, a cosmologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was to explain the extraordinary uniformity of the universe.

构想该理论(由麻省理工学院宇宙学家艾伦·古思提出)的最大原因是为了解释宇宙其令人惊奇的各向同性。

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Former St Johnstone team-mates Alan Main, Stevie May and Bobby Barr were among those to also pay tribute on Twitter.

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Tuesday evening's documentary explains how Alexander's departure for what at the time was an unspecified illness came days after it was announced that goalkeeper Alan Main would not play for the club again.

BBC: SPORT | Football | My Club | Gretna | Worn-out Alexander explains exit

On that basis, people might think that the main responsibility of Alan Greenspan, today's Fed chairman, is growth.

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