Firms with so little equity have almost no ability to absorb temporary downturns or shocks, says Volker Beissenhirtz, an insolvency expert at Schultze & Braun, a German law firm.

拥有如此少股票的公司几乎没有能力吸收短期衰退或者震荡所带来的冲击，Volker Beissenhirtz如是说（他是德国Schultze & Braun法律公司中破产方面的专家）。

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Yet why were there no price shocks then?

然而，为什么那时没有出现价格震荡呢？

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But some policymakers worry that the financial system is still in no state to absorb even modest shocks.

但是一些政策制定者担心金融系统仍无法承受住一般性冲击。

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No dear,Nature made you so perfectly that this small defect shocks me as being a sign of earthly imperfection."

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And you only have to look under the hood or crawl beneath the car to see a technological nightmare: A low-compression flathead V-8, cloth wrapped wires, a crude carburetor, leaf springs and no shocks, big mechanical brakes that were about as useful as an anchor, and a differential the size of a melon, to appreciate that this car was a polluting, rattling, death trap.

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Looking ahead, participants are bullish for March, assuming, of course, no disruptive shocks intrude.

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And that is if there are no supply shocks before then.

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