华尔街和美国监管者的糟糕表现，已经给美国经济模式的吸引力这样的软实力造成了重大损失，如果美国和20世界90年代的日本相比，能够成功消化损失并降低危害，当前的金融危机的打击不一定是致命的。
The poor performance of Wall Street and America regulators has cost America a good deal in terms of the soft power of its economic model’s attractiveness, but the blow need not be fatal if, in contrast to Japan in the 1990’s, the US manages to absorb the losses and limit the damage.