It was a brave decision. By abandoning Lehman Brothers, a 158-year-old piece of Wall Street furniture, and refusing to remove their hands from their pockets when Merrill Lynch came calling, Hank Paulson, US Treasury secretary, and Tim Geithner, governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, had one of the busiest weekends of dispassion on record. There will be much fallout in financial markets over the next few weeks and even more uncertainty.
這是一個勇敢的決定。通過放棄雷曼兄弟(Lehman Brothers)這家有著158年歷史的老牌華爾街公司,同時在美林(Merrill Lynch)登門拜訪時捂緊錢袋,美國財政部長漢克?保爾森(Hank Paulson)和紐約聯邦儲備銀行行長蒂姆?加斯內(Tim Geithner)在有史以來最繁忙的一個周末保持了冷靜。這將在未來幾周對金融市場產生很大的連帶影響,甚至帶來更多的不確定性。