The Financial Crisis Flashcards by Lamine Kanté

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Un plan de sauvetage

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A bailout

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Une monnaie

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A currency

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Une crise

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A crunch / slump / meldown / downturn

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La falaise fiscale

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The fiscal cliff

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Le plafond de la dette

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The debt ceiling

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Le chiffre d’affaire

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The sales figures

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Un prêt

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A loan

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Les pertes financières

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Red ink

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Une reconnaissance de dette

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An IOU

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Les contribuables

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The taxpayers

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Des sables mouvants, un bourbier

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A quicksands / a quagmire

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Hausses / baisses d’impôts

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Tax raises / cuts

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Le ministre des finances GB

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The chancellor of the Exchequer

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Ministre des finances US

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The Secretzry of the Treasury

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La faillite

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The bankruptcy

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Marge de manœuvre

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Leeway

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Hypothèque

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Mortgages

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En difficulté

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Ailling

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Flottant / instable

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Flickering / unsteady

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Imprévisible

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Unpredictable

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Prendre rapidement de l’ampleur

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To snowball

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Être à découvert

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To be in the red

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Faire tache d’huile

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To spread / gain around

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Aller à vau-l’eau

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To go to hell in a handbasket

Condescendant

Patronising / condescending

Être redevable

To owe sb

Être dans une mauvaise passe

To be in dire straits

Avoir des réserves

To be in the black

Considérablement augmenter

Ballooning

Une période

A span

Une baisse soudaine

A drop

Rapidement

Quickly / swiftly

Réduire

To cut / to slice

Une cessez-le-feu

A ceasefire / a truce

Un avantage

An advantage

Un désavantage

A disadvantage / a downside

Camper sur ses positions

To keep the sale opinion / to stick to your guns

Critiquer

To criticise / to lambast

Les chances / les probabilités

The odds

Les programmes d'aides sociales

Social aid programs / entitlement programs

Des actifs financiers

Assets

Une croissance rapide

A boom

S'enfuir massivement

To stampede out

Privé de

Starve

Responsable

Liable / accountable

Amortir le choc

To take up the slack

Dans une certaine mesure

To an extent

Incroyable

Incredible / Amazing / mind blowing