Private demand is plunging as consumers are battered by tight credit, falling wealth and rising unemployment, while fearful firms hunker down.

消费者需求骤降，因为消费者受困于紧缩的信用状况，缩水的资产，和步步高升的失业率，并且也担忧企业进一步倒闭。

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Guarantors have become the lenders of last resort to small manufacturers who increasingly are getting squeezed by tight credit as well as soaring wages and other production costs.

担保人已日益成为受到信贷紧缩、工资大幅上涨和其他生产成本激增挤压的小制造商的最后能够求助的贷款人。

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Most analysts trace America's current economic woes to tight credit conditions sparked by a wave of home foreclosures and mortgage defaults.

绝大多数分析人士都把美国目前的经济困难归咎于房贷违约和丧失抵押住房赎回权案子激增所导致的信贷条件紧缩。

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Consumers, indebted and hobbled by tight credit, cannot help much.

ECONOMIST: Manufacturing's future

Mr. MIKE MITTERNIGHT (Owner, Factory Service Agency Inc.): In days gone by, before there was such tight credit, most of the major manufacturers and suppliers would work with us and allow us a 45- to 60-day turnaround time to make those payments.

NPR: Business Owners Sound Off On Economy

The main complaint was not the U.S. and European economies, but about taxes and fees charged by local governments, regional protectionism and tight credit, said Fan Gang, director of the National Economics Research Institute at the China Reform Foundation, which compiled the data.

FORBES: China Inc. Blames Govt. For Worsening Market