PBS.前线.崩溃的银行（2009）

The president said, "You guys need to get with the program
总统说 你们必须参与到这个计划中
because the only thing between this massive backlash
因为阻止这场针对你们的强烈抗♥议♥
against you is
唯一的办法
if we can get the economy back on track."
就是让经济重新回到正轨
It was a new day, the president,
第二天 总统宣布
openly signaling that he was in charge,
一切都在他的掌握之中
insisting they increase lending
他主张提高贷款额度
and limit executive compensation
限制管理层薪资水平
and foreclosures, or else.
取消赎回权等等
Since that meeting, Bank of America's stockholders
那次会议之后 美国银行的股东
stripped Ken Lewis of his chairmanship,
罢免了肯·刘易斯
Federal regulators ordered him to find new directors,
联邦监管机构命令他任命新主管
and he had to sell off parts of his company to raise cash
他还不得不卖♥♥掉几间公♥司♥来筹集资金
to satisfy new government regulations.
以达到新政♥府♥的要求
Lewis says he now deeply
刘易斯说他现在很后悔
regrets taking the TARP money from Paulson
两次接受保尔森TARP的救助金
both times and all that has followed.
还有这之后所有的一切
Little did I know the pain that
我从来没想到政♥府♥
would invoke with the congress
有一天会这么狠狠地
giving us the whipping that day,
惩罚我们
the constant articles in the paper
报纸上的评论总是不断
about how bad we are,
抨击我们是多么恶毒
and then things around compensation
然后还要求我们赔偿
and how you run your bank.
对该怎么经营银行指手画脚
It was a clear example of no good deed goes unpunished.
这就是典型的好心没好报
But at the White House,
但是在白宫
they have little sympathy for bankers' complaints.
他们对银行家的抱怨一点都不同情
They created the structures
落到今天这个下场
themselves that got them into this position.
那是他们自作孽
It wasn't the government who created this problem,
造成今天局面的并不是政♥府♥
they created this problem.
而是他们自己捅了这个篓子
Maybe they find it inconvenient that
也许他们觉得很难理解
there's a whole lot of responsibilities that come along
虽然政♥府♥资助了他们的最后一搏
with the government being their lender of last resort
并确实把他们救出火坑
and saving them when they
但是他们
actually fell into the- to the pit of fire.
还是得承担绝大部分的责任
But you know, that's where we are.
但是 这也没办法
As far as Washington is concerned,
就华盛顿而言
they're still sorting through the financial wreckage.
他们依然要收拾这场金融危机的残局
This is the kind of disaster,
这是一场灾难
like the aftermath of the great depression
就像是经济大萧条
and the crash of '29,
和1929年的那次股市大崩♥盘♥的余波
that causes people to say,
因此人们都纷纷猜测
"There's something fundamentally wrong here.
一定是哪里完全错了
There's something fundamentally broken.
根本上就是错的
And we can't fix it with a new agency, or you know,
而仅靠建立个新机构或渐进式的方法
just a piecemeal approach.
不足以解决现在的问题
We have to kind of tear down the structure
我们得把现有的体制和结构
and start all over."
全部推倒重来
But whatever happens,
不管怎样
the era that propelled John Thain,
那个曾经把约翰·塞恩
Ken Lewis and Hank Paulson
肯·刘易斯和汉克·保尔森
to the top of the financial world is over.
推上金融世界之巅的时代已经一去不返了
The party's over.
金融界的鼎盛期已经过去
The financial institutions
金融机构
are down for the count.
全军覆没
This is one of those pivot points in American history.
这是美国历史上重要的转折点之一
That old economy, that old way of looking at things,
传统的经济模式 看待事物的传统眼光
that old way of putting on a party,
还有过去的游戏规则
It's over. It's over.
一切都结束了 结束了