The French may have been spared the worst of the speculative bubble, but they have been badly battered by unemployment, the economy's longstanding weak spot.

虽然法国免遭最为严重的投机泡沫，但却深受失业之苦，这也是其经济长期的弱点。

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It's also good news if prices fall due to the collapse of a speculative bubble.

即使价格下降是由于投机泡沫的破灭造成的，也仍然是个好消息。

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Once again, we are seeing the puncturing of a speculative bubble that was the result of asset prices soaring high above the underlying value of the assets.

再一次，我们目睹了严重脱离固有价值的资产价格飞涨导致的投机性泡沫被戳穿的景象。

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He really laid out the problem quite well, at least, the problem of the last two or three years, that there was a speculative bubble in the price of housing, that the financial institutions, the banks and investment banks and all these insurance companies and pension funds and everyone else exacerbated that problem by spreading that risk all throughout the economy.

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Perhaps the turmoil of the past few weeks, by pricking a speculative bubble and making investors reassess risks, has itself sown the seeds of a recovery.

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Ratings agencies, investment banks, mortgage lenders, and yield-starved hedge funds have taken some of the blame for creating the speculative bubble, and federal regulators are also taking the heat for failing to stop them.

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