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1
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Des hauts et des bas

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Boom and bust

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Une phase de baisse

Un fléchissement de l’activité

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A downturn

A downswing

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Un ralentissement

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A slowdown

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Connaître une période difficile

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To go through a bad patch

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Une récession

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A recession

A slump

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L’effondrement de l’économie mondiale

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The global economic meltdown

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La déflation

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Deflation

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La stagflation

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Stagflation

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What was the most severe economic recession in the 20th century?

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The Great Depression

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Déclenchée

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Set off

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When was the Wall Street crash?

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The 29th of October 1929

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Entraîner

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To pull down

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Baisser

Diminuer

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To fall
To slide
To decrease
To drop

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S’effondrer
Plonger
Dégringoler

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To slump
To collapse 
To plummet
To plunge
To tumble
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L’immobilier

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Property

Real estate

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Un agent immobilier

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An estate agent

A realtor

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Un promoteur immobilier

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A developer

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La bulle/crise immobilière

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The housing bubble/crisis

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Les prix de l’immobilier

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Housing prices
Property prices
Real estate prices

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L’immobilier est dans le marasme

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The property market is in the doldrums

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Le bâtiment (secteur économique)

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The building industry

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Emprunteur

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Borrower

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What is a subprime loan?

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A loan to a borrower who perhaps will not be able to pay it back

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Biens

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Assets

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NINJA loans

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Loans to people with No Income, No Jobs or Assets

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Which % of subprime loans granted in recent years in the US had adjustable rates?

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80%

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Taux variables

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Adjustable rates

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To default

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To stop paying one’s monthly installments

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Emprunter de l’argent à une banque

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To borrow money from a bank

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Prêter de l’argent à quelqu’un

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To lend money to somebody

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Taux d’intérêt

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Interest rate

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Un prêt

Un emprunt

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A loan

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Un usurier

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A loan shark

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Faire un emprunt

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To take out a loan

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Une société de crédit immobilier

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A building society

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Ne pas honorer ses engagements

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To default on a loan

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Insolvable

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Insolvent

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38
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L’insolvabilité

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Insolvency

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Un crédit hypothécaire

Un emprunt immobilier

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A mortgage

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Contracter un emprunt immobilier

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To take out

To raise a mortgage

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Hypothéquer sa maison

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To mortgage one’s house

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Une mensualité

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A monthly instalment

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Rembourser un emprunt immobilier

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To pay off a mortgage

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Saisir un bien immobilier

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To foreclose a mortgage

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Reprendre possession d’un bien

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To repossess property

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Une saisie (immobilière)

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A foreclosure

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Sans abri

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Homeless

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48
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Répit

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Breathing room

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La bulle du crédit

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The credit bubble

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La crise du crédit

Le resserrement du crédit

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The credit crunch

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Le secteur bancaire

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Banking

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Une banque d’affaires

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An investment bank

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Un fonds de pension

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A pension fund

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Une hausse des taux d’intérêt

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A rise in interest rates

A hike in interest rates

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Le taux d’inflation

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Inflation rate

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How was called the speculative bubble due to new technologies and that burst in 2000 ?

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The dotcom bubble

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Récupérer

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To recoup

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Réaliser des bénéfices

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To make a profit

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Une perte

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A loss

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Faire faillite

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To go bankrupt

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Une faillite

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A bankruptcy

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Une dette

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Debt

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Avoir des dettes

Être endetté

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To be in debt

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Être dans le rouge

Sortir du rouge

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To be in the red

To get out of the red

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Renflouer une entreprise

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To bail out a company

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Renflouement

Sauvetage

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Bailout

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Un contribuable

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A taxpayer

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Un plan de sauvetage

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A rescue plan

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Prendre des mesures d’urgence

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To take emergency measures

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Une subvention

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A subsidy

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Subventionner

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To subsidize

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AMF

Autorité des Marchés Financiers

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SEC

Securities and Exchange Commission

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Appliquer

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To enforce

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Valeurs boursières

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Securities

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Actions

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Stocks

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La bourse (des valeurs)

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The stock exchange

The stockmarket

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Des actions

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Shares

Stock(s)

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Un actionnaire

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A shareholder

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Épargner

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To save

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Économies

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Savings

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Les petits épargnants

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Small savers

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Une obligation

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A bond

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Une obligation pourrie

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A junk bond

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Un investisseur

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An investor

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Un spéculateur

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A speculator

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Un fonds spéculatif

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A hedge fund

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Consolider

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To shore up

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Avec 5 ans de recul

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With half a decade hindsight

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La financiarisation de l’économie

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The financialization of the economy

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La désindustrialisation

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De-industrialization

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Un financier

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A financier

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Un trader véreux

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A rogue trader

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Un capitaliste-voyou

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A rogue capitalist

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Un gros richard

Un gros capitaliste

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A fat cat

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Une prime

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A bonus

Pl: bonuses

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Le délit d’initiés

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Insider dealing

Insider trading

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La fraude fiscal

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Tax evasion

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Un fraudeur

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A tax dodger

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Un paradis fiscal

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A tax haven

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Le secret bancaire

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Bank secrecy

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Une chaîne de Ponzi

Une pyramide de Ponzi

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A Ponzi scheme

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Une escroquerie

Une arnaque

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A scam

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Un escroc

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A crook
A swindler
A conman

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A Ponzi scheme

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A fraudulent investment operation that consists in paying investors interest from their own money or from the money paid by subsequent investors

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La politique économique

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Economic policy

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To how many years imprisonment was Bernard Madoff sentenced ?

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150 years

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Des mesures d’austérité

Une politique de rigueur

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Austerity measures

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Un plan de relance

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A stimulus plan

A stimulus package

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L’assouplissement quantitatif

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Quantitative easing

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Stimuler la croissance

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To boost growth

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Le dérèglementation

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Deregulation

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The central bank of the US

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The fed

The Federal Reserve System

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La croissance

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Growth

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Les dépenses publiques

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Public spending

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Équilibrer un budget

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To balance a budget

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Réductions budgétaires drastiques

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Drastic budget cuts

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Un déficit budgétaire

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A budget deficit

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Une agence de notation

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A credit-rating agency

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Une augmentation des impôts

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A tax rise

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L’investissement

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Investment

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Les dépenses des consommateurs

La demande des consommateurs

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Consumer spending

Consumer demand

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Ventes automobiles

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Automotive sales

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Réduire les coûts salariaux

Réduire les coûts de production

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To reduce wage

To reduce production costs

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Rationaliser

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To streamline

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Dégraisser ses effectifs

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To downsize

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Restructuration

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Restructuring

127
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Licencier des salariés

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To make workers redundant

To lay off workers

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Supprimer des emplois

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To cut jobs

129
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Des pertes d’emplois

Des suppressions d’emplois

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Job losses

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L’économie se redresse

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The economy is recovering

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La reprise

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Recovery

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Les affaires reprennent

A

Business is picking up

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Une remontée de la croissance

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An upswing in economic growth

134
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Augmenter

Monter

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To increase
To go up
To rise

135
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Monter en flèche

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To soar
To surge
To rocket

136
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Who is the president of the fed?

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Janet Yellen since 2014)

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