The lost decade is no longer exclusively a Japan story.

失去的十年不仅仅只是日本的故事。

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The predicament of Japanese in their 20s and 30s dates back to the lost decade of the 1990s, when many failed to find good, stable work.

处于困境中的年轻人大都在20-30岁之间，出生于上世纪被称为迷茫年代的九十年代，他们都不能找到一份体面的稳定的工作。

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The Fed had studied Japan extensively, and believed that the Bank of Japan could have averted the lost decade if it had reacted very aggressively early on.

美联储曾经大规模地研究日本，并相信日本银行如果能在早期就反应迅猛，那么应该能够避免消失的十年。

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"Michigan's population actually declined. That was the only state that lost population across the decade."

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They usually talk about it as the "lost decade," where Japanese banks were not liquidated but they were not really in business.

他们在谈论它的时候称之为“垮掉的十年“,在这十年里，日本银行并没有破产,但是他们也没有真正在做生意。

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"We have just come through what was one of the most difficult decades the middle class has ever faced a decade in which median income fell, and our economy lost about as many jobs as it gained,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

In many cases, you might be surprised at the returns investors achieved over the lost decade.

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They call it the lost decade.

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Part of the fear that drives investors to products such as variable annuities, equity-indexed annuities, and the false promises of active management (including absolute return funds) is the misplaced fear of the recent lost decade in the performance of stocks.

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