It is then that the ties that bind large corporations to their native soil are fully revealed. As former Bank of England Governor Mervyn King aptly put it in the context of finance, “global banks are global in life, but national in death.”
但当经济风暴来临时，所有人都会向本国政府寻求卵翼。这时，大公司与其母国的关系就凸显无疑了。前英格兰银行行长默文·金（Mervyn King）恰当地做过一番金融领域的总结：“全球银行生是全球的，死是国家的。”