Businessmen and rich landowners had put their money in Confederate bonds, now completely worthless. Confederate war debts would never be paid.

商人和富裕的地主把他们的钱都存放在南方邦联的银行里，现在一分钱也不值了。

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But little has been done since-and, in hard times for the rich world, little of the promised money is likely to be forthcoming in Durban.

但从那之后富国却没有采取什么行动，而今富国正在艰难时期，承诺的资金很难在德班兑现。

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The problem is likely to be in the rich world—and a rising nervousness about foreign money.

问题可能出在发达国家中——视外来资金为洪水猛兽。

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Add off-shore banking, and many Montenegrins dream that their republic could be a mainland Cyprus, where the rich will come to bask in money and sun.

ECONOMIST: Montenegro

But in her new book, The Courage to Be Rich, New Age money guru Suze Orman has cleaned up some inflated claims we spotted amid her rise to book and television talk-show prominence.

FORBES: Follow Through

To some extent, the unusually generous response to the tsunami crisis may reflect a widespread, and largely justified, belief in rich countries that their money is more likely to be spent well on relieving natural disasters than on man-made humanitarian crises such as those in Congo and Darfur or, for that matter, on general development aid to the world's poorest countries.

ECONOMIST: Asia's tsunami