If you look at number of organizations that do this business, it comes completely reversed and it's credit unions that are the most important.

从这些金融机构的数量上来看,排行完全相反,信用合作社就成了最重要的

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It's like a Savings and Loan Association except that credit unions are created by some entity, some club or group, and they're not open to the whole public.

这有点像储贷协会,不同点在于,信用合作社是由某个独立群体所创建的,比如社团或集体组织,它不面向整个社会公众

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You hear about credit unions a lot because they're in your neighborhood and they're advertising for small depositors, so they're in your face, but commercial banks are actually much more important.

你们常会听到信用合作社,因为它们就在你家附近,它们还面向小额储户打广告,所以比较显眼,但商业银行其实要重要得多

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I don't have the latest data -this is from 1998 -but there were 11,000 credit unions -that's the number of credit unions in the United States in 1998 -and there were only 9,000 commercial banks; that's the number of banks.

我手上没有最新的数据,这个是1998年的,共有11000个信用合作社,这是1998年全美信用合作社的数量,与此同时,商业银行只有9000家,这是银行的数量

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