HONG KONG – Nowadays there is ample evidence that financial systems, whether in Asia in the 1990’s or a decade later in the United States and Europe, are vulnerable to breakdowns. The cost in interrupted growth and unemployment has been intolerably large.
香港—时至今日，已有充分的证据表明，不管是20世纪90年代的亚洲，还是十年后的美国和欧洲，金融系统都难逃崩溃的命运。增长中断和失业飙升的代价极其沉重。