With investors now worried about European sovereign debt and the crisis over the American debt ceiling, it is not surprising that both assets are popular again.

现在，随着投资者对欧洲主权债务和美国债务上限危机的担心，上述两种资产再度受到青睐就不足为奇了。

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The short-term crisis is due to the rapid growth of federal debt outstanding that will soon hit the ceiling set by Congress.

短期债务危机是因为快速增长的联邦未偿债务很快会达到国会设定的上限。

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Aside from the debt ceiling fight, the issues driving the recent loss of confidence have been swirling since even before the 2008 financial crisis.

除债务上限之战外，导致投资者最近丧失信心的其他背后因素早在2008年金融危机爆发前就已开始不断聚积了。

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We are going to come up against another debt ceiling crisis in just two months.

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And in this case, the debt ceiling crisis, if you will, was a manufactured crisis.

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They saw Republicans lose ground in the polls and with voters after precipitating the last debt ceiling crisis in 2011.

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