In contrast, credit CARDS allow the consumers a continuing balance of debt, subject to interest being charged.

相反，只要支付了利息，消费者就可以用信用卡持续透支。

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To assess the absolute risk of a crisis you need to estimate external-financing needs (defined as the sum of the current-account balance and the stock of short-term debt) over the next 12 months.

为评定危机的绝对风险需要估计外部筹资需求（定义为经常账户余额和股票短期借款的总和）在接下来的12个月中。

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And household and corporate savings still comfortably exceed the level of debt, keeping the national balance-sheet solvent.

然而家庭和企业储蓄仍然轻松超出了债务水平，这保持了国家的资产负债表的平衡。

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No one knows exactly what the right balance of debt and equity is in an economy, but the shrinkage of securitisation in particular makes it more likely that the process of deleveraging will overshoot.

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But when she accompanied Mulyono to the clinic to offer to pay the balance of his debt, they were told the baby had been sold to someone who could take care of him.

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In the mid-1990s, they looked at the balance-sheets of their debt-laden subsidiaries, and at the feeble earnings from them, and decided, one after the other, that they had had enough, either merging their interests or pulling out altogether.

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