What is particularly unfortunate is that by the time governments began to take the menace of the ferocious financial monster seriously, its strength and hold over the real economy already far exceeded most people's imaginations.
尤其無奈的是，當各國政府才開始正視金融怪獸的猙獰威脅時，它的強勢與對實質經濟的操控，卻已大大超乎世人的想像了。