Even today, after the bursting of the stock-market bubble, American venture-capital firms—which are in the business of betting on the future—dwarf the firms from all other nations.

即使是在股市泡沫破裂之后的今天，美国的风险投资公司——它们从事的是押注未来的业务——也让所有其他国家的公司相形见绌。

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The surprise was that the bursting of the bubble would be so damaging.

令人吃惊的是泡沫的破灭竟然会具有如此破坏性。

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Its days have been numbered since the collapse of the Berlin Wall coincided with the bursting of Japan's bubble economy.

但自柏林墙倒塌与日本泡沫经济破裂同时发生的那刻起，自民党就时日无多了。

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His current policy is to inflate another stock market bubble to cure the recession that resulted from the bursting of the housing bubble, which was itself inflated to counter the effects of the bursting tech stock bubble.

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To stimulate after the bursting of the housing bubble (which itself resulted from the low interest rates used to juice the economy following the bursting of the dot-com bubble), the Fed lowered interest rates to practically zero.

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Some trace the bursting of the bubble to December 1999, and the peak for shares in telecoms firms.

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