The Obama administration has boosted the number of federal agents and augmented other resources along the U.S.border with Mexico in response to the increasing violence by drug gangs.

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So, according to the expectations theory augmented with liquidity preference-- This strongly upward-sloping term structure in 2003 would reflect two things.

所以,根据结合了流动性偏好的,预期理论,2003年期限结构中表现出的,强烈上扬趋势反映了两方面的因素

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