THE ECONOMIC CRISIS Flashcards by Julia Alexis

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Une phase de baisse

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a downturn

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Un fléchissement de l’activité

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a downswing

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Un ralentissement

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a slowdown

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Connaître une période difficile

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To go through a bad patch

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Une récession

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A recession, a slump

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The global economic meltdown

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L’effondrement de l’économie mondiale

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Deflation

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La déflation

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Stagflation

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La stagflation

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To fall, to slide, to decrease, to drop

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Baisser, diminuer

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To collapse

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S’effondrer

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L’immobilier

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Property

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Un agent immobilier

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An estate agent

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Un promoteur immobilier

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A developer

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La bulle immobilière

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The housing bubble

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Les prix de l’immobilier

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Housing prices

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The property market is in the doldrums

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L’immobilier est dans le marasme

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The building industry

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Le bâtiment

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To borrow money from a bank

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Emprunter de l’argent à une banque

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To lend money to somebody

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Prêter de l’argent à quelqu’un

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Taux d’intérêt

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Interest rate

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Un prêt, un emprunt

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A loan

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Un usurier

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A loan shark

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Faire un emprunt

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To take out loan

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Ne pas honorer ses engagements

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To default on a loan

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A mortgage

Un emprunt immobilier

- To take out a mortgage

Contracter un emprunt immobilier

To mortgage one’s house

Hypothéquer sa maison

A monthly instalment

Une mensualité

To pay off a mortgage

Rembourser un emprunt immobilier

To foreclose a mortgage

Saisir un bien immobilier

Reprendre possession d’un bien

To repossess property

Une saisie

A foreclosure

Sans abri

Homeless

La bulle de crédit

The credit bubble

La crise du crédit

The credit crunch

Le secteur bancaire

Banking

An investment bank

Une banque d’affaires

A pension fund

Un fonds de pension

A rise in interest rates

Une hausse du taux d’intérêt

Inflation rate

Le taux d’inflation

To make a profit

Réaliser des bénéfices

A loss

Une perte

To go bankrupt

Faire faillite

A bankruptcy

Une faillite

Debt

Une dette

To be in debt

Avoir des dettes

To be in red

Être dans le rouge

Sortir du rouge

Get out of the red

La crise immobilière

The housing crisis

Que l’on ait connue

We’ve been throught

La seconde guerre

World War II

Economic policy

La politique économique

Boost

Stimuler

This opportunity

L’occasion

Compétitivité

Competitiveness

Protectionnisme

Protectionism

La situation devient difficile

The going gets tough

He would compel

Qu’il contraindrait

Saisir

To foreclose

Le domicile

The homes

Il n’y a guère de doute

There is little doubt

Is a thing of the past

Appartient au passé