8月中旬，我曾冒然预测风险将进一步加大，并有一大美国投资银行可能很快破产或者被迫以令人不安的方式被合并。
In mid-August, I had the temerity to predict that risks had come home to roost, and that a large US investment bank might soon fail or be forced into a highly distressed merger.