“A city that can't invest goes kaput, ” says its spokesman, Martin Schulmann.

“如果一个城市不能吸引外来投资，那就完蛋了”，城市发言人Martin Schulmann说道。

Messrs Erixon and Weigel write that the very engine of capitalist growth, the creative destruction described by Joseph Schumpeter, is kaput.

他们在书中写道，资本主义发展的“核心引擎”（約瑟夫·熊彼特曾称其为创造性破坏）已运作失常。

" Kaput" comes from a card game, and the " kaput" means the loser, but now we basically use it to mean broken or something that's not working.

" 坏了" 来源于卡片游戏，意思是输家，现在我们基本上用它来表示坏了或不起作用了。

Is the idea that these smaller banks have so many commercial real estate loans on their portfolio that if the market goes kaput, that then the banks go kaput?

这些小型银行的投资组合中有如此多的商业房地产贷款，如果市场崩溃，那么银行就会崩溃吗？