双语新闻：盖特纳出书披露金融危机爆发内幕

2014-05-13 11:34:48来源：可可英语

　　In the end, Mr Geithner’s willingness to use public money was moot, because UK regulators opposed the Barclays deal and time ran out. Barclays was the last remaining bidder for Lehman after Bank of America decided to pursue Merrill Lynch instead.

　　最终，盖特纳动用公共资金拯救雷曼的想法不了了之，原因是英国监管机构反对巴克莱对雷曼的收购，而且时间也来不及了。在美国银行(BoA)决定转而收购美林(Merrill Lynch)之后，巴克莱银行成为雷曼仅剩的唯一竞购方。

　　Lehman was insolvent and, without a buyer, the Fed had no authority to lend, writes Mr Geithner. That echoes what Mr Bernanke has said about the Lehman weekend.

　　盖特纳写道，雷曼因此陷入破产。由于没有买家收购雷曼，美联储也无权发放贷款。盖特纳这种说法与伯南克对雷曼破产的那个周末的描述一样。

　　By and large, Stress Test does not rewrite the history of the financial crisis. Mr Geithner’s main theme is the wisdom of propping up the financial system rather than punishing bankers. He attacks the “Old Testament populism and moral hazard fundamentalism” of those who opposed bailouts for fear they would encourage future irresponsibility.

　　大体上说，《压力测试》一书并未改写金融危机的历史。盖特纳写此书的主旨是表达如何以极大的智慧支持整个金融体系，而不是惩罚银行家。他大力批判了人们持有的那些“旧约式民粹主义及道德风险原教旨主义”——因担心会鼓励不负责任的行为而反对纾困。

　　Among insider details, Mr Geithner writes that he was put forward for chief executive of Citigroup in November 2007 but declined. The job went to Vikram Pandit. He recalls an awkward moment when John Thain, the chief executive of Merrill Lynch, appeared not to know the name of his own chief risk officer; and recounts how his staff gave a snippet of false information to aides to Sheila Bair, the head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, to see if it would leak to the press. “It quickly did,” he writes.

　　盖特纳还在书中披露了一些内幕细节，他写道2007年11月他曾被提名为花旗集团(Citigroup)首席执行官，不过这一提名被否决了，这一岗位后来被指派给潘伟迪(Vikram Pandit)。他还记得一些十分难堪的场面，比如美林首席执行官约翰•塞恩(John Thain)似乎不知道自己的首席风险官的名字;此外，盖特纳的员工层曾故意向美国联邦存款保险公司(Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)主席希拉•拜尔(Sheila Bair)的助手泄露过一段虚假信息，以考察这段信息是否会被泄露给媒体，“消息很快就被泄露出去了”。

　　But Mr Geithner saves his harshest criticism for Congress during the effort for financial reform and in rows over the debt ceiling.

　　不过，盖特纳并未像在他试图开展金融改革及与国会陷入一系列关于债务天花板的争端时那样，尖锐地批评美国国会。

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