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The country's dishonest bankers and shady mortgage-brokers never seem to be touched by economic cycles that grind other Americans down.

（然而）该国狡诈的银行家和黑幕之后的货款中间人似乎从未像其他人那样，被经济周期的巨轮碾得粉碎。

The proposal was the buzz among the assembled central bankers as they focused on how to deal with the next cycle.

这一提议正被聚在一起关注如何应对下一轮危机的央行官员们议论纷纷。

Since the draft regulations came out last month, bankers have been warning that it would hit liquidity from equities to corporate bonds.

自上月沃克尔规则草案公布以来，银行家们一直在警告，从股票到企业债券，市场流动性都会受到冲击。

But all of this noise and fury, it seems to me, is dancing around the same question: are London's investment bankers paid too much?

所有这些反对的噪音和愤慨，在我看来，它围绕着同一个问题：是否支付给了伦敦投资银行家们太高的薪水？

'It would have been impossible, ' he said, 'to say to bankers, we're not going to participate . . . and expect to have any people left. '

他说，一方面跟银行家们说我们不会参与，另一方面又指望留人，那是不可能的。

But just because investing in railways is seen by bankers as something of a political task does not mean they are throwing their money away.

但不能仅仅因为银行家将投资铁路视为某种政治任务，就意味着他们在把钱往水里扔。

As a dozen bankers awaited an important meeting with him, he retired to his bedroom, lay in bed, and shot himself in the heart.

在十几个银行家等待与他见面的当口，他回到卧室，上了床，对着自己的脑袋开了枪。

How much can the central bankers do?

那中央银行能做什么呢？

Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, is among the world's most influential central bankers and leading policy economists.

英国央行行长默文•金（MervynKing）是全球最有影响力的央行行长之一，也是一位一流的政策经济学家。

Some argue that the market has learned its lesson, although even the bankers do not sound all that convinced.

尽管甚至银行家都无法确信，一些人称市场已经吸取了经验。

Economists said the surge in inflation also presented Asian central bankers with a conundrum that went against their instincts.

经济学家表示，通胀飙升还给亚洲各国央行官员带来了一个与其本能相悖的难题。

"Going forward" is so infectious that it has spread from inarticulate bankers and analysts to people who once had a fine way with words.

“Goingforward”传染性很强，它已经从不善言辞的银行家和分析师那里，波及到那些一度擅长用词的人们。

Talk to bankers and the conversation is as it always was - assertive, gossip-filled and permanently ready to bash rivals.

与银行家们交谈你会发现，他们的谈吐一如既往：坚定自信、八卦连篇，时刻准备抨击对手。

Or were they just being bankers, trying to squeeze more money out of the deal with some 11th-hour brinkmanship?

抑或作为银行家，想在最后一刻冒个险，以榨取更多利润？

Whatever the merits of these points, they were not what these characters were saying only a few years ago about bankers or wealth creation.

不管这些观点价值何在，他们不像政客们几年前对银行家和财富创造的评价。

Prudential declined to specify how much it had paid the exchanges, bankers and lawyers to introduce its shares to Hong Kong and Singapore.

保诚拒绝详细透露为向香港和新加坡推荐其股票，向交易所、银行家和律师支付了多少费用。

One of the next big steps for the market is likely to be the first renminbi bond sale by a foreign company, bankers say.

银行界人士表示，债券市场接下来的重大举措之一，可能是首度允许外国公司发行人民币债券。

after all, it isn't easy to ask soldiers or bankers to broaden their vision.

而让士兵或银行家扩展自己的眼界则并不简单。

For over a year, since August 2007, central bankers, principally Mr Bernanke, have been trying to make this toxic debt liquid.

自2007年8月以来的一年时间里，以伯南克为主要代表的央行一直致力于有毒债务的清偿。

John McCain and Barack Obama talk as if it was all down to the greed of modern bankers.

约翰？麦凯恩和巴拉克？奥巴马则将一切都归咎于现代银行家的贪婪。