The president spoke at a meeting of a White House advisory panel set up to study the problems facing the middle class and propose solutions.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

What they're really doing is just we're facing this seize up of our financial system so we have banks that we've just seen the failure of Bear Stearns which is actually a broker-dealer.

他们真正在做的只是,我们正处于金融体系失灵的阶段,所以我们有这种银行,我们刚刚目睹了经纪自营商,贝尔斯登的失败。

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The Myers are facing prison terms of up to 35 years if they are convicted of the charges against them, which include acting as illegal agents of a foreign government.

VOA: standard.2009.06.06