On October 17th Ed Miliband, Labour's leader, announced plans to halt the tide of payday loan firms into Britain's shopping districts that accelerated following the economic crisis in 2008.

10月17日，工党的领导人，艾德? 米利班德，宣布限制在英国的商业中心建立薪日贷款公司的计划。自从2008年经济危机后，薪日贷款公司在英国市中心度加快。

So in addition to dropping interest rates to zero, which encourages people and companies to take loans, the Fed is buying bonds, opening new credit facilities, starting a new lending program.

除了将利率降至零，为了鼓励个人和公司接受贷款，美联储正在购买债券，开放新的信贷安排，启动新的贷款计划。

Banks use them to decide loans. Insurance uses them to decide premiums. Recruiters and employers use them to decide whether one is a good fit for a job or not.

银行利用这些信息决定批准谁的贷款，保险公司用它们决定保费额度，招聘人员和雇主用它们来决定你们到底适不适合某个工作。

To get the money, the buyer signs an agreement with a bank or loan company.

为了借到这笔，买家与银行或贷款公司签署协议。

As banks' cash piles shrank, they grew reluctant to lend to companies and other counterparties.

随着银行现金储备萎缩，他们越来越不愿意贷款给公司和其他交易对手。

Some crypto-lending firms, notably Celsius, have collapsed; some stablecoins, like terra, have been obliterated.

一些加密贷款公司，特别是Celsius，已经倒闭；一些稳定币，如Terra稳定币，已经被摧毁。

But what's not standard is this intercompany loan, this loan from their, like, sister company.

但不常见的是这种公司间贷款，这种贷款来自他们的姐妹公司。

The company offers a bill-consolidation loan because their credit is so good, and tells them the intelligent thing to do is clear off the high-interest consumer debt by paying off their credit card.

因为他们的信用记录非常，所公司可为他们提供债务合并贷款。那家公司告诉他们用这笔贷款偿付他们信用卡上的高息消费贷款是一项明智之举。

So there is no doubt that these loans were a lifesaver for many companies, and anyone who got PPP funding is probably relieved to hear that 92% of all the loans have been granted full or partial forgiveness so far.

毫无疑问，这些贷款是许多公司的救星，任何获得“薪酬保障计划”拨款者可能都会获得减免，因为到目前为止，92%的贷款都获得了全额免除或部分免除。

" Rates continued to rise alongside hotter-than-expected inflation numbers this week, exceeding 6% for the first time since late 2008, " said Sam Khater, chief economist at Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage firm that released the interest rate data.

布这一利率数据的是政府赞助的住宅贷款抵押公司房地美，该公司的首席经济学家山姆·卡特指出：“在通胀火热程度超出预期的同时，房贷利率继续上涨，自从 2008 年底来首次突破 6%。”

The country's so-called " hidden debt" scandal stemmed from loans in 2013 and 2014 to three public companies to finance a tuna fishing project, debt the government masked from the nation's parliament.

莫桑比克所谓的" 隐性债务" 丑闻源于2013年和2014年向三家上市公司提供贷款，资助一个金枪鱼捕捞项目，该国政府对议会隐瞒了这笔债务。

The New York Attorney General's Office told a court that investigators found evidence that Donald Trump's company used " fraudulent or misleading" asset valuations for loans and tax benefits.

纽约总检察长办公室在法庭上表示，调查人员现有证据表明，唐纳德·特朗普的公司在贷款和税收优惠方面使用了“欺诈性或误导性的”资产估值。

Now, a zombie stock refers to a company that continues to operate despite being financially troubled or has very low chances to pay their loans or debt.

Zombie stock 指的是那些尽管财务困难或几乎没有偿还贷款或债务的公司仍在继续运营的公司。

Their efforts included loans to banks, automakers and other companies. The aim was to rescue businesses that officials considered " too big to fail" .

他们的努力包括向银行、汽车制造商和其他公司提供贷款，目的是拯救那些被官方认为" 大到不会倒" 的企业。

The U.S. Department of Energy has invited Joby to apply for a loan to support development of the facility as a clean energy project.

美国能源部已邀请 Joby 航空公司申请贷款，支持该清洁能源项目的。

Three Arrows, a crypto-focused hedge fund, had invested in crypto assets and companies and took loans out from other companies.

专注于加密货币的对冲基金 Three Arrows 曾投资于加密货币资产和公司，并从其他公司获得贷款。

He was also found guilty of trying to fraudulently obtain a loan from a financing company in New York City.

他还因试图频繁向纽约市一家金融公司贷款被判有罪。

India's banks are not huge fans of lending to small firms; they often demand onerous amounts of collateral or security on fixed assets, exactly the kinds of things start-ups cannot provide.

印度银行对小公司贷款并没有兴趣，银行通常要求各种抵押或固定资产担保，而这些这是公司在创业阶段无法提供的。

Natalie Blyth of HSBC, a bank, reckons that the performance gap between trade-finance assets and corporate loans will widen.

汇丰银行（HSBC）的Natalie Blyth认为，贸易金融资产和公司贷款之间的表现差距将会扩大。

Often big firms, flush with such cheap loans, will further extend credit in local currencies to smaller ones.

这类廉价贷款充裕的大公司经常会进一步将用当地货币计算的信贷扩至较小的公司。