On Wall Street and in the once-shimmering financial capitals of Europe, banks have been shaken to their foundations. Barring a few winners, such as Goldman Sachs – able, in the absence of rivals, “to Hoover up $1,000 bills”, as one observer put it – most western financial institutions have been brought to their knees. Many are now wards of state. Others have been absorbed by rivals, broken up or forced to beg for capital from taxpayers and foreign institutions.
在華爾街和曾經光芒四射的歐洲金融都市，銀行的根基已經動搖。除了高盛(Goldman Sachs)等少數贏家能夠在沒有競爭對手的情況下“狂賺千元大鈔”(此為一位觀察人士所言)，大多數西方金融機構已經一蹶不振。許多機構目前處在政府的監護之下。還有的機構被競爭對手兼并、遭到分拆、或被迫向納稅人和海外機構乞求資金援助。
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