If there is one lesson everybody should take away from the credit crunch, it is that central bankers, no less than dentists, are only human.

如果说有一个教训是每个人都应该从信贷危机中吸取的，那就是央行行长和牙医一样都是凡人。

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Iceland, the first nation to go bankrupt in the credit crunch.

冰岛是第一个在信贷紧缩中破产的国家。

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Will the credit crunch continue?

信贷紧缩还将持续吗？

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Hungary was the first European Union member state to receive international financing to avoid bankruptcy during the global credit crunch.

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Some countries are blaming the United States for sparking the economic crisis through the deregulation of its financial scene - a move that led to a credit crunch and sparked an economic recession.

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The Fed is trying to prevent the credit crunch from turning into a complete credit freeze.

NPR: Bailing out Bear Stearns

Taking advantage of those anomalies proved difficult at the height of the credit crunch.

ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

He added that "the rest of the world" had also failed to predict the credit crunch.

BBC: HBOS ex-chairman Lord Stevenson admits errors