一见卿心711
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.
小v爱火锅
不是我写的，。是网路上搜索到的Advantages of Getting a Loan from the Bank for My Studies助学贷款的好处I am a College student from a farmer's family in a mountaineous area. A year ago, I was admitted to a famous university. Before entering the university, I was told that the necessary expenses during my four years' study would cost nearly fifty thousand yuan. My parents had collected all the money there was to collect, including the money borrowed from their relatives, but it was hardly enough to meet the needs. Then,good news came that I could resort to the bank for a loan. I thought it was a good idea and so I did it. My decision was based on the following considerations: First, with the loan I can pay the tuition and support my life on the campus. Secondly, I don't have to depend on my parents who are always worrying about the enormous family expenditure. Thirdly, I will always have the pressure upon me which forces me to study the hard way. Fourthly, I have to live a very simple life and save every coin possible. To sooner liquidate the debt, I sometimes work as a home tutor, sometimes a door-to-door salesman, sometimes a restaurant waiter. Finally, while doing part-time jobs, I have accumulated a lot of social experience, bitter sometimes, sweet occasionally but happy all the time. I think the above are the advantages the loan from the bank has brought to me. They are beneficial not only to my studies at the university but also to my future career, because I firmly believe in the saying that "Harsh life produces a diligent and intelligent man."可以不咯？
天地为凭
EVEN by the standards of the worst financial crisis for at least a generation, the events of Sunday Spetember14th and the day before were extraordinary. The weekend began with hopes that a deal could be struck, with or without government backing, to save Lehman Brothers, America’s fourth-largest investment bank. It ended with Lehman’s set for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and the bank preparing to wind itself up after those efforts failed. Other vulnerable financial giants scrambled to sell themselves or raise enough capital to stave off a similar fate. Merrill Lynch, the third-biggest investment bank, sold itself to Bank of America (BofA), an erstwhile Lehman suitor, in a $50 billion all-stock deal. American International Group (AIG) brought forward a potentially life-saving overhaul and went cap-in-hand to the Federal Reserve. 即使以至少一代人所经历的最坏的金融危机的标准来看，上周六及周日（9月14日）的事件仍是非同寻常的。那个周末开始于拯救美国第四大投行雷曼兄弟的交易有望达成，无论有或者没有政府的支持。然而却以雷曼兄弟的所有努力均告失败后，根据美国破产法案第11章申请破产保护而告终。其它脆弱的金融巨头同样努力地将自己卖出或是筹集足够的资金以避免与雷曼相同的命运。第三大投行美林以500亿美元全额换股交易将自己卖给了以前雷曼的收购者–美国银行。美国国际集团（AIG）正在提出一个潜在的挽救重整方案，并且毕恭毕敬地照美联储脸色行事。
AAA平淡的一生
The term financial crisis is applied broadly to a variety of situations in which some financial institutions or assets suddenly lose a large part of their value. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many financial crises were associated with banking panics, and many recessions coincided with these panics. Other situations that are often called financial crises include stock market crashes and the bursting of other financial bubbles, currency crises, and sovereign defaults. Many economists have offered theories about how financial crises develop and how they could be prevented. There is little consensus, however, and financial crises are still a regular occurrence around the world.The global financial crisis of 2008 is a major financial crisis, the worst of its kind since 1987, and which is ongoing as of mid-November 2008. It became prominently visible in September 2008 with the failure, merger or conservatorship of several large United States-based financial firms. The underlying causes leading to the crisis had been reported in business journals for many months before September, with commentary about the financial stability of leading U.S. and European investment banks, insurance firms and mortgage banks consequent to the subprime mortgage crisis. Beginning with failures of large financial institutions in the United States, it rapidly evolved into a global crisis resulting in a number of European bank failures and declines in various stock indexes, and large reductions in the market value of equities (stock) and commodities worldwide. The crisis has led to a liquidity problem and the de-leveraging of financial institutions especially in the United States and Europe, which further accelerated the liquidity crisis. World political leaders and national ministers of finance and central bank directors have coordinated their efforts to reduce fears but the crisis is ongoing and continues to change, evolving at the close of October into a currency crisis with investors transferring vast capital resources into stronger currencies such as the yen, the dollar and the Swiss franc, leading many emergent economies to seek aid from the International Monetary Fund. The crisis was triggered by the subprime mortgage crisis and is an acute phase of the financial crisis of 2007–2008.
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