真水岂无香
面对金融危机的来临,作为一个大学生,应该临危不惧" Approach that face the financial crisis, be an university student, should in hour of danger not 惧 ""金融危机来临,世界经济萧条"等等 谢谢了 在线跪等" the financial crisis comes, the depression of world" the etc. thanked for on-line kneeling etc
joannekaka
华尔街(wall street)是纽约市曼哈顿区南部一条大街的名字，长不超过一英里，宽仅11米。它是美国一些主要金融机构的所在地。 华尔街是英文“墙街”的音译。荷兰统治时，在这里筑过一道防卫墙。英国人赶走荷兰人后，拆墙建街，因而得名。这条街上的联邦厅曾是美国第一届国会的所在地，首任总统华盛顿就是在这里宣誓就职的，如今大门前耸立着华盛顿像以纪念此事。不过华尔街作为政治中心只是短暂的一瞬，而作为金融中心却一直辉煌夺目，经久不衰。 华尔街两旁很早就已是摩天大楼竖立，街道如同峡谷，抬头只能望见一线天。数不清的大银行、信托公司、保险公司和交易所都在这里驻足。每天成千上万的白领阶级涌到这里上班。而住在郊区的金融巨头们，则不必受挤车堵车之苦。他们上下班乘飞机，直升机场就设在华尔街东端不远的东河畔。 华尔街设有纽约证券交易所、美国证券交易所、投资银行、政府和市办的证券交易商、信托公司、联邦储备银行、各公用事业和保险公司的总部以及棉花、咖啡、糖、可可等商品交易所。华尔街是金融和投资高度集中的象征。在纽约的华尔街这条全长仅有500多米、街面非常狭窄的小马路上，云集着包括纽约证券交易所、联邦储备银行在内的众多金融机构，正是这些呼风唤雨的知名机构，使其成为国际金融界的“神经中枢”。 “牛”气冲天 华尔街是个寸土寸金的地方，每一座建筑都充分利用有限的空间来争取最大的收益。由于建筑的间距非常小，走在街上有种喘不过气来的压抑感。这种氛围不禁使人联想到这里的股市每天上演的激烈博弈。据统计，在纽约从事金融业的职员中，有10万在华尔街工作。因此，每天的上下班时间，整条街都拥堵不堪。华尔街的快节奏生活使这里的人们步履匆匆，无暇顾及身边事。不过由于是白领和顶级富豪的聚集地，人们的衣着都非常时髦光鲜，只要看到他们的穿戴，就能捕捉到这个季节的流行脉搏了。 众所周知，华尔街的标志是一座身长5米、体重6300公斤的铜牛塑像。设计者迪莫迪卡最早为它挑选的立足点是纽约证券交易所门前的人行道。当时，为了保证铜牛的安全，警察每晚8时在铜牛周围巡逻察看。当人们第一次看到这个身体健硕、鼻孔发光的庞然大物时，都被它浑身透着的“牛”气震住。不过，铜牛还是被搬到与华尔街斜交的百老汇大街上安了家。如今，它已成为“力量和勇气”的象征，似乎只要铜牛在，股市就能永保“牛”市。 证券交易所大门难寻 大名鼎鼎的纽约证券交易所就坐落于华尔街11号。不过有趣的是，交易所的地理位置和名气有点不成正比：许多初来乍到的人都要在华尔街上转一圈才能找到交易所的入口。原来，它的正门并不在华尔街主道上，而是“藏”在了旁边一个不起眼的支道上。 在占地3700平方英尺的交易所大厅里，每天的股票交易高达25亿股，而每笔交易只需不到一分钟的时间。华尔街制造着一夜暴富的神话，但也不乏令人心酸的回忆。1929年10月24日，美国许多家最有名望的企业股票突然急剧下跌，失去控制，最终导致几百万人破产，引发了那场美国著名的经济大萧条。此外，“9·11”事件也给华尔街繁荣的金融生活带来沉重打击，当时的遇难者大多数是活跃在华尔街各大金融机构的精英。事件发生后，人们用一面巨大的美国国旗包裹住证券交易所门前的石柱，以纪念那些不幸的亡灵。 金融业的象征 华尔街是英语“WallStreet”的音译，但这个名称并非源于街道两旁大墙似的高楼。根据华尔街街口大厦墙上镶嵌着的铜匾记载，1653年，荷兰人统治时期，这里是新阿姆斯特丹总督的驻地。为方便警卫通行，总督下令用木头做围墙，筑起一条街，就地取名“墙街”，这就是最早的华尔街。18世纪，24个商人代表聚集在华尔街的一棵梧桐树下，签订了梧桐协议，规定在他们之间可以进行证券交易，这就是纽约证券交易所的前身。从上个世纪20年代起，华尔街已经成为美国金融行业的象征。只要一提股票，人们便会联想到华尔街，就连一些并非在此办公的金融大公司，也被人们想当然地认为是华尔街公司，可见其地位已经深入人心。
减肥的小新
It seems that the USA is experiencing the same thing Hong Kong experienced in 2003, when the housing bubble burst and the SARS virus spread. Being a small open economy, Hong Kong can do nothing to remedy the situation. The USA is different, it has fiscal and monetary policy on its side. I hope that America will try their best to reverse the trend so that the world economy will grow again. A recession in the US will certainly affect China, because the growth of the Chinese economy is, to a certain extent, export-led and America is the largest market for Chinese goods. If the Chinese economy is affected, it will affect Hong Kong too because every year we have a large number of visitors from China. They also buy houses as well as stocks and shares in Hong Kong. However, it will be impossible to have a recession as severe as the great depression of 1930’s. The reasons are as follows:1. The gold standard has been abandoned. In the past, a dollar was not just a piece of paper, it was also a piece of gold. You could convert it into gold at a fixed rate. Now a dollar is just a piece of paper. Under the gold standard the government lost the freedom to control (or to increase) the money supply. Now the government can print as much money as she likes. The probability of having inflation is much larger than that of having a recession.2. The knowledge that private virtue is public vice. Private individuals still want to save more and spend less during bad times. But governments know that people should spend more in bad times. To encourage people to do so, governments will have deficit budgets by cutting taxes and spend more money than they have.3. Governments learn from history. The experience of the Great Depression leads them to prevent such a tragedy from happening again. The Ph.D. thesis of Ben Bernanke (Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the U.S.) is about the causes of the Great Depression and how to prevent it from happening again.4. There are coordinated measures taken by the main countries of the world, including those of the emerging economies such as China. During the Great Depression, the governments did not take coordinated measures, and one country’s measure was nullified by another country’s measure.
