Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand.

  • -- Ben Shalom Bernanke 本·伯南克

货币政策对长期增长起不了多大作用,我们所能做的就是努力消除经济因需求不足而低迷的时期。

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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

真正的内疚是对自己应尽的义务感到内疚。假内疚感是由于自己没有成为别人认为自己应该成为的人,或者没有成为别人认为自己应该成为的人而产生的内疚感。

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

无限的经济增长具有一种神奇的品质,既能平息不满,又能保持特权,这一事实在自由派经济学家中并没有被忽视。