For example, a retail investor that purchases bonds issued by a company is bearing risk, but not contributing so much as a cent to measured economic activity.

例如，一名散户投资者购买一家企业发行的债券将承担风险，但对测算的经济活动毫无贡献。

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He says his firm has decreased its exposure to interest-bearing instruments like bonds issued in these markets.

他说，公司已经减持了这些市场发行的证券等附息金融工具。

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Originally, many states required pension funds to invest in safe, interest-bearing bonds.

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Last year, in a bid to generate domestic capital for business activity, the government issued interest-bearing recapitalization bonds to prime the banking system with funds.

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When Quito recently defaulted on bonds bearing the name of the man who engineered an earlier bail-out -- then-U.S. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady -- the Clinton Administration, in its wisdom, decided to make an example of Ecuador.

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