“You can’t start off better than that, ” Mr. Greenspan told the crowd.

“这当然是再好不过的开始了，”格林斯潘对观众说。

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"You can have huge amounts of regulation and I will guarantee nothing will go wrong," Mr. Greenspan told Congress, "but nothing will go right either."

“你可以有庞大的管理，我保证没有哪一条是错的，”格林斯潘先生告诉国会，“但是也没有哪一条是对的”。

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In an echo of the Watergate hearings 35 years ago, Mr. Greenspan was asked when he knew there was a housing bubble and when he told the public about it.

听证会的气氛使人回想起35年前的水门事件国会听证。格林斯潘被问到他何时知道存在着住房泡沫以及他又是何时告知公众这一点的。

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As Greenspan told congressmen, a touch dismissively, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines account for just 4% of American exports.

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In other energy news, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress yesterday that shrinking supplies of U.S. natural gas mean the nation must build more gas import terminals to create a "safety valve" that will help stabilize prices.

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Its former chairman Alan Greenspan bluntly told another regulator, Brooksley Born, that he didn't believe in pursuing and prosecuting fraud.

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