Yet such tactics may be unavailable in today 's flightier financial markets .
然而,这种策略在当今反复无常的金融市场中可能不太可行。
The first is that , unlike banks , they are funded by premiums rather than flightier forms of debt .
第一,保险公司不像银行,他们的资金不是来自不稳定的债务,而是来自保险费。
That would cut the external deficit and allow for lower interest rates , deterring some of the flightier forms of capital .
这种做法可以减少外部赤字、使低利率成为可能以及震慑部分游资。
For those , however , who took some of the candidate obama 's flightier passages of oratory with a pinch of salt , there is the fascination of watching the president obama grapple with the art of the possible - on healthcare , climate change and , perhaps most fatefully , on the military escalation in afghanistan .