But the interest rates the Fed normally targets - basically rates on short-term U. S. government debt - are already near zero.

然而，美联储通常作为目标的利率——基本上就是美国短期国债的利率——已经接近于零。

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The bond bubble is getting ready to burst, which will collapse the U. S. government debt bubble with it.

债券的泡沫将破裂，并将导致泡沫中的美国国债崩溃。

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From a historical perspective, the current U. S. government debt is not large.

从历史的角度来看，当前美国的国债并不是很庞大。

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Gary Nabel, who heads the U.S.government's Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health and was the study's lead author.

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This thing collapsed in the 1980s and it cost the U.S. Government, through the FSLIC, about 150 billion dollars.

0世纪80年代,坏账集中爆发,美国政府经联邦储蓄贷款保险公司之手,花费了约1500亿美元才填补了坏账

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Do you know any policies that the U.S. government is using to fight global warming?

你知道一些美国政府应对全球变暖的政策吗？

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They are the countries of the world whose central banks buy U.S. dollars collected by their export businesses, by printing their own money with which to do it, and with those dollars turn around and buy U.S. government securities, not because they necessarily consider them good investments, but primarily because the U.S. government securities market is currently the only U.S. dollar repository big enough to take the bid.

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Currently the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has a contract from the U.S. government to maintain the Internet infrastructure, but the U.S. government wants to hand that responsibility off to a nongovernmental body that will have international representation.

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Only bonds backed by the U.S. government were downgraded, and the vast majority of those were defeased bonds (bonds escrowed by U.S. government debt because they were refunded).

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