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:在一次國情諮文報告之前,我參加了白宮的一個宴會——一個所謂思想家的宴會,所有在場的人都在熱烈討論有關市場的問題,關於“他們到了哪裡”,以及某個市場有極大不同,等等。最終,我舉起手:“我很莊重認為,市場不僅僅和所謂“他們”有關,市場就是“我們”,是我們所有的退休基金,是我們的養老計劃,這才是我們的市場。
Onscreen caption: Sacramento; California
字幕:Sacramento; 加利福尼亞
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:加州管理著美國最大的退休基金,這個名為CalPERS的基金管理著超過一百萬本州員工的退休儲蓄金。
Onscreen caption: CalPERS
California Public Employees' Retirement System
Assets: 150 billion
字幕:CalPERS
加利福尼亞公共僱員退休系統
資產:1500億美元
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。
數十年以來,CalPERS只在美國進行投資。但是在全球化的時代裡,這種情況發生了變化,有四分之一的錢在海外進行投資,CalPERS曾一度控制了法國股票市場總市值的5%。
French television sent a crew to investigate。
法國電視臺曾派出小組對此進行調查。
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