The threat of impending financial disaster concentrates political minds wonderfully.On Thursday a group of Congressional leaders heard Hank Paulson, the Treasury secretary, and Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, paint a dire economic scenario if they did not approve a more sweeping remedy for the financial crisis.Student and car loans, not just mortgages, would all be harder to get.The economy would sink into a severe recession.
迫在眉睫的金融災難引起了相當多的政治關注。上周四,一群國會領袖聽了財長保爾森和美聯(lián)儲主席伯南克所描述的,當國會不通過這項全面拯救金融危機的方案,經濟上將會出現(xiàn)的可怕場面。那時,不僅僅是抵押貸款,甚至連助學貸款和買車貸款可能都很難獲得。經濟將陷入嚴重的衰退。