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I raised my hand and said: ";With all due respect; the market isn't just them; it's us。 It's our aggregated retirement savings; it's our pension plans。 That's what the markets are。";
DANIEL YERGIN:在一次国情咨文报告之前,我参加了白宫的一个宴会——一个所谓思想家的宴会,所有在场的人都在热烈讨论有关市场的问题,关于“他们到了哪里”,以及某个市场有极大不同,等等。最终,我举起手:“我很庄重认为,市场不仅仅和所谓“他们”有关,市场就是“我们”,是我们所有的退休基金,是我们的养老计划,这才是我们的市场。
Onscreen caption: Sacramento; California
字幕:Sacramento; 加利福尼亚
NARRATOR: The state of California runs one of America's largest pension funds。 The fund; known as CalPERS; manages the retirement savings of over a million state employees。
旁白:加州管理着美国最大的退休基金,这个名为CalPERS的基金管理着超过一百万本州员工的退休储蓄金。
Onscreen caption: CalPERS
California Public Employees' Retirement System
Assets: 150 billion
字幕:CalPERS
加利福尼亚公共雇员退休系统
资产:1500亿美元
For decades; CalPERS invested only in America。 But in the era of globalization; that changed。 A quarter of its money was invested overseas。 At one point; CalPERS controlled 5 percent of France's entire stock market。
数十年以来,CalPERS只在美国进行投资。但是在全球化的时代里,这种情况发生了变化,有四分之一的钱在海外进行投资,CalPERS曾一度控制了法国股票市场总市值的5%。
French television sent a crew to investigate。
法国电视台曾派出小组对此进行调查。
MARY COTTRILL; Principal Investment Officer; CalPERS: They were filming in my office; and I had a salad on my desk because it'd been just a very hectic day。 We were talking about some figures on my puter; but they kept filming this salad; and I got the feeling that; you know; the story was going to be; ";The Americans are ing; and they're going to ruin the French way of life。 We're all going to be eating salads at our desk and working 12 or 14 hours;"; which; of course; is not true at all。 But I think it was just a fear; I think; that
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