And a reminder of the rage over Wall Street's dramatic excesses over the last five years.

还有，一个警钟，警示著人民对于华尔街过去五年来戏剧般放纵的愤怒。

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Some excesses have been abolished, such as flat-rate travel expenses often worth five times the actual cost of an air ticket.

有些过度挥霍的津贴被取消了，如相当于实际机票价的5倍“统一旅费”。

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That may not be the worst thing, given the excesses that led the the bubble bursting five and a half years ago, but Alpert thinks one of the knock-on effects is housing demand from institutional investors masking the fact that shadow inventory is still a significant overhang on the market.

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They purged excesses in capital spending and inventory accumulation and happened every five years or so.

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It appeared on our cover more than five years ago in what we saw as a rebound from the excesses of the phone boom of the 1990s.

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