商务英语-商务英语听说对话：金融界巨头的计短之时

时间：2009-11-03 02:58:11

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The International Monetary¹ Fund, the World Bank and the G-7 wrapped up three long days of top-level meetings this past weekend. But they couldn't devise a coordinated² plan to unstick the troubled financial markets. Nancy Marshall Genzer reports.

KAI RYSSDAL: Here's part of the week's earnings³ calendar if you want to prepare yourself. We'll get Washington Mutual⁴ tomorrow, JP Morgan on Wednesday. Citigroup comes Friday.
This was a big weekend for the big wigs⁵ of the financial world. We're talking about the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the G-7. They wrapped up three long days of top-level meetings yesterday. There was some consensus⁶ at the margins⁷, but no coordinated plan to unstick the troubled financial markets.
From Washington, Nancy Marshall Genzer has more.
NANCY MARSHALL GENZER: About the best thing you could say about the weekend meetings is there was no public squabbling. It was easy to agree to do nothing. Economist⁸ Mark Weisbrot, of the Center for Economic Policy Research, says that's a problem.
MARK WEISBROT: When, you know, everyone stands up at a football game and you stand up by yourself you can see, but if everyone stands up, then nobody can see, and so there's times when you need a coordinated decision.
The financial players came out of their huddle⁹ over the weekend and promptly¹⁰ ran off the field. They decided¹¹ they would each just look after their own economies. The G-7 did say it didn't want to see the dollar slide any more, but the G-7 team is missing some crucial players, China and India. Economist Moyara Ruehsen, of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, says that limits the G-7's impact.
MOYARA RUEHSEN: What we have is a conversation only between finance ministers and central bankers from western Europe, North America and Japan.
But Fred Bergsten, of the Peterson Institute for international economics, says it's not clear the world would take action, even if China and India were included. That's because many countries feel the US is to blame for its own problems. The US economy sneezed, and nobody even said gesundheit.
FRED BERGSTEN: When the US sneeze does not lead to pneumonia¹² or even a cold abroad, it really demonstrates a decoupling, through the great expansion of trade among countries outside the United States.
Bergsten says the world hasn't been this decoupled from the US economy since World War II.

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