Well, the Fed is like that now, but what Paulson and Nason wanted to do is make it more than a banker's bank.

联邦政府现在就像英国银行一样，但是鲍尔森和内森想做的,远远不止中央银行那么点。

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The question is what it means to say something is backed by something because well you could say it's backed by gold because the Fed has eleven billion dollars of gold.

问题在于，说某个东西被另一个东西支持,意味着，你可以说,货币被金子支持着,因为美联储有一百一十亿美元的金子。

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The U.S. Federal Reserve System was really a copy of the Bank of England thinking that, well, the Bank of England managed to prevent bank runs for all these years, let's create the Fed, which we'll talk about again later.

美国联邦储备制度,就是模仿英格兰银行而建立的,试想一下,由于英格兰银行在预防,银行挤兑方面一直都很成功,所以美国就效仿建立联邦储备,后面的课程再讲美联储

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