People expect us to take decisive, firm action especially to ensure that we stabilize the banking system and help it get through this period.

人们希望我们采取果断、坚决的行动，尤其是稳定银行系统，帮助它们度过难关。

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Now what if President Bush had gone on the tube and explained to everyone that they had panicked over nothing fundamental, that the Fed was going to be our temporary banking system as needed, and that he was ordering every firm to immediately rehire everyone they had just fired and keep them on for the next year until the panic subsided?

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In desperation the firm asked suppliers to be patient and buyers to accelerate payments, and raised costly loans from outside the banking system.

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