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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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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Those trends, though they have worsened this year, date further back, to the "lost decade" of the 1990s.

这一趋势可以追溯到20世纪90年代那“失去的十年”，只是今年开始恶化了。

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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,".

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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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