冰岛是第一个在信贷紧缩中破产的国家。

Iceland, the first nation to go bankrupt in the credit crunch.

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由于面临严重的预算紧缩，许多州大幅削减了对高等教育的资助。

Caught in a severe budget crunch, many states have sharply scaled back their funding for higher education.

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这个建议现在比以往任何时候都更有意义，尽管目前住房紧缩，现在有更多的父母希望听取他们孩子的想法。

This advice is more relevant now than ever before, even as more parents want to embrace the ideas of their children, despite the current housing crunch.

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The value of money changes through time because of inflation or deflation; yet, most of our debts are written in money terms.

货币的价值因时而异,那是因为存在通货膨胀和通货紧缩;,但是，我们大多数负债都以货币方式记录。

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Listen, the two periods in American history 1945 1890 to 1945 The economy suffers 3 contractions of 5 percent, 15% 2 of 10, and 2 of almost 15 percent.

听好，美国历史上的两大时期,第一时期是从1890到5,经济遭受过三次紧缩率为5%的经济紧缩，两次10%，还有两次高达。

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It wasn't caused by the Fed's sudden tightening against inflation. It was different it was this recession was not understood not anticipated; the Fed came in late to cut interest rates to try to prevent it from being worse because it just didn't seem to have any reason for happening.

它不是由于美联储对通货膨胀的,突然紧缩政策造成的，它不同之处在于,这个经济衰退没有被理解，没有事先准备好；,美联储试图阻止它恶化而,降低利率为时已晚，因为,它似乎看起来没有任何理由发生。

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