短期筹资是指为满足企业临时性流动资金需要而进行的筹资活动。企业的短期资金一般是通过流动负债的方式取得，短期筹资也称为流动负债筹资或短期负债筹资。
而美国却没有如此高瞻远瞩的眼光，他们的筹资环境青睐短期产品，不信什么图腾。
That kind of open-ended vision doesn’t work here, where our funding environment rewards near-term products, not totems.
为评定危机的绝对风险需要估计外部筹资需求（定义为经常账户余额和股票短期借款的总和）在接下来的12个月中。
To assess the absolute risk of a crisis you need to estimate external-financing needs (defined as the sum of the current-account balance and the stock of short-term debt) over the next 12 months.
但是这些购买行为都是依靠发行短期国债进行筹资的。
But these purchases are being financed by the issue of Treasury bills.
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