The subprime disaster reinforced that reactive thinking can't avert a financial meltdown, and diversifying risk is still an imperfect art.

次级贷灾难加强了这样一个观点，即反应性思维不能防止金融崩溃，分散化风险还只是个不完美的技巧。

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Banks in Cyprus will now remain close through Friday as the Mediterranean island nation tries to find a way to avoid a financial meltdown.

塞浦路斯银行周五继续关闭，这个地中海岛国正设法找到避免金融崩盘的方法。

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I think the committee has got to be telling itself every morning at nine o 'clock, 'If we do not solve this problem, we could have a financial meltdown.

我认为，这个委员会每天早上9点必须对自己说：如果我们不能解决这个问题，我们就可能发生金融危机。

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Speaking Wednesday at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Secretary Geithner said the United States should never again be faced with having to choose between a financial meltdown and massive taxpayer bailouts.

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"Its failure could have resulted in a 1930s-style global financial and economic meltdown, with catastrophic implications for production, income and jobs,".

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Some economists blame a lack of oversight of the subprime mortgage industry for fueling the global financial meltdown that followed.

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The biggest fly circling the ointment is Europe and the potential for a financial meltdown.

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Here we stand on the brink of a financial meltdown that could make the recent recession look like a walk in the park.

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By contrast, it is hard to know how much weight to give in such decisions to the remote chance of a financial meltdown.

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