Icelandic banks, for example, took deposits in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, and swept them back to Reykjavik, leaving the host countries out of pocket. Likewise, the collapse of Lehman Brothers left European creditors more exposed than those in the US, whose funds had been wired home to New York on the Friday before the end.
以冰岛各银行为例，它们把英国和荷兰的存款卷回雷克雅未克，却让两国去承担损失。同样，雷曼兄弟的倒闭将欧洲债权人置于比美国债权人更危险的境地，因为美国人的钱在一切结束前的那个星期五已经被汇回纽约了。