The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.

  • -- James Surowiecki 索罗斯基

银行的根本问题一直是:它们从事的是银行业,而银行业,无论是普通的还是极其复杂的,本质上都是有风险的。

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It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.

不是通过增加国家的资本,而是通过使这些资本中比其他情况下更大的一部分具有活性和生产性,使最明智的银行业务能够增加国家的工业。

There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.

有一个基本的情况,这个国家已经到了最低点,一个母亲不能在早上把她的孩子送出门。这个国家已经跌到了谷底,这一点需要改变。

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

受教育的问题在于它需要很长时间;它占用了你生活中较好的部分,当你完成工作后,你知道,如果你进入银行业,你会受益更多。