美国拨款7000亿美元以稳定市场.docVIP

The financial crisis金融危机 The price of stability稳定的代价 Sep 19th 2008 | WASHINGTON, DC From E 原文出处：/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id 1座机电话号码 Americas Treasury asks Congress for $700 billion to stabilise the markets 美国财政部请求国会拨款7000亿美元以稳定市场 UNTIL this week Americas authorities clung to the hope that they could tide over the financial system with a few loans until home prices stabilised and all the bad debts were accounted for. But the destruction visited on Wall Street in the past week has dashed those aspirations and forced policymakers to consider a more sweeping response. The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and AIGs federal takeover have triggered a wholesale flight to safety that could turn illiquid institutions insolvent. Healthy corporations can no longer issue bonds. Banks can barely borrow from each other. 在本周以前，美国当局还一直坚信他们用一些贷款就能稳住金融系统直到房屋价格企稳并且所有的坏账都得以解决。但是本周对于华尔街毁灭性的打击使得他们原来的梦想破灭，迫使这些政策制定者不得不考虑更加全面的应对方法。雷曼的破产和AIG被政府接管迫使资金都流入安全港避难，从而使得那些流动性匮乏的机构濒临倒闭。现在，就连运转良好的公司也不再发行债券，银行间的同业拆解更是凤毛麟角。 The federal government, having lent hundreds of billions of dollars to banks and investment banks and AIG, now thinks it must put permanent capital into the financial system to restore confidence and stop the vicious spiral. Hank Paulson, the treasury secretary, and Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, met Congressional leaders towards the end of the week. And on Saturday September 20th Mr Paulson sent a preliminary plan under which the federal government would be authorised to purchase up to $700 billion of 搑esidential or commercial mortgages and any securities, obligations, or other instruments that are based on or related to such mortgages” originated or issued on or before Wednesday. It could buy them from any financial institution headquartered in the United States. 已经给予商业银行、投行以及AIG数千亿美元的美国联邦政府认为，必须给金融系统注入永久资金来重塑信心并且停止恶性循环。财长保尔森和美联储主席伯南克将在本周末会见国会领袖。在周六（9月20日），保尔森会做出一份初步计划。这份计划要求美国联邦政府授权购入多达7000亿美元的，本周三及其以前创立的或者发行的”住房和商业抵押贷款，证券和债券以及其它基于住房抵押的或者与住房抵押有关的票据”。这将会从任何总部位于美国