In a rare interview, he criticised the stock exchange's plans to extend the period before earnings announcements during which directors and managers cannot trade in their firms' shares.

在一次罕有的采访中，他批评证券交易所延长公布财报时间的计划。而在这段时间里，董事和管理人员无法交易公司的股份。

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Some firms have reached agreements to cut workers' pay below the level set in their contract, a practice that is illegal in Germany.

有些公司已达成一致意见将工人的工资削减到低于合同中规定的水平，这种做法在德国是违法的。

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Workers in big firms receive a substantial part of their pay in the form of bonuses and overtime.

大公司的工人，工资很大一部分是奖金和加班费。

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Most financial firms that invested heavily in those debts suffered crushing losses from which they could not recover on their own.

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Sure enough what you see very quickly emerging is new entrants entering the market to say, hey these firms are restricting their quantities, we can get in there and make money.

不久你就会发现有大量的新兴公司,进入了这个领域,他们发现先入公司在限制产量,就也进入行业来赚钱了

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"By creating this process which non-banks whose failure would have systemic consequences could be wound down in an orderly fashion, we would restore balance and force firms to face the consequences of their actions,".

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Boards also lent executives huge sums of money, sometimes to buy shares in their firms but often with no specified purpose, and repayments were later waived.

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Investors are also suspicious of private equity shops because these companies are partnerships whose first allegiance is to the investors in their funds, not in their firms.

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But other embattled chief executives, including James Cayne of Bear Stearns and Charles Prince of Citigroup, have survived, for now, despite big shake-ups in their firms' bond trading divisions.

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