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经济
Economy
I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing on Wall Street. When economics is taught by pure academics, watch out.
一段时间以来，我一直觉得，经济学需要由那些实际上在华尔街工作或投资过的经济学家以不同的方式教授。当经济学由纯学术人士讲授时，要小心。
Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.
与此同时，家长、学生和老师对特许学校的满意度都更高。人们喜欢他们。他们花费更少的钱。他们提高了贫困儿童的学业成绩。来吧，有点热情。
If you're a global company you are going to have jobs overseas. The reality is if we start taxing those jobs at a rate that makes them noncompetitive in those markets, the reality is that we're going to lose business.
如果你是一家全球性公司，你就会在海外找到工作。现实情况是，如果我们开始以使这些工作在这些市场上失去竞争力的速度征税，我们就会失去业务。
There are still an awful lot of assets that have been evaporated but not written down. People are looking for a quarter with bad news so they can write it all off at once. Asset quality is lower than it has ever been.
仍有大量资产被蒸发，但没有减记。人们在寻找一个有坏消息的季度，这样他们就可以一次性把它一笔勾销。资产质量比以往任何时候都低。
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
劳动先于资本，并且独立于资本。资本只是劳动的果实，如果没有劳动，资本就不可能存在。劳动高于资本，理应得到更高的重视。
Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere.
目前没有人盈利，因为经济衰退已经开始;广告费用下降了，而费用却上升了。这和你预期的情况不太相符，因为各地的评级都在上升。
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
土地:地球表面的一部分，被认为是财产。土地是私人所有和控制的财产，这一理论是现代社会的基础，尤其值得上层建筑借鉴。
The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible.
资本家对两个因素进行了推测:必须尽可能地降低女职工的工资;必须尽可能地利用女职工的竞争来降低男职工的工资。
Thus, the questions we should ask here are what makes the current economic upswing different from the past two recoveries, and whether such differences are sufficient for the economy to reach the sustained growth path.
因此，我们应该问的问题是，当前的经济回升与过去两次复苏的不同之处是什么?这些差异是否足以使经济走上可持续增长之路?
I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.
我认为安然、世通和其他公司的失败，在一定程度上是因为投资者没有认识到，这些公司正在以千倍于零的价格出售，但它们很可能只值这么多钱。
Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.
如果你觉得这些岛屿在空间和时间上仍然太遥远，与我们的现代社会没有关系，那就想想其中的风险吧……我们日益全球化和全球经济日益相互依存。
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
对于一个管理不善的国家来说，第一剂灵丹妙药是货币通胀;第二是战争。两者都带来了短暂的繁荣;两者都会带来永久的毁灭。但两者都是政治和经济机会主义者的避难所。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
学习经济学的目的不是为了获得一套现成的经济问题的答案，而是学习如何避免被经济学家所欺骗。
The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.
经济不是一个抽象概念。经济是由人组成的，只有当人们感到安全并享有合理的自由时，经济才会增长。
We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.
我们需要认识到，真正重要的不是购买越来越多的消费品，而是家人、朋友，以及知道我们在用生命做一些有价值的事情。帮助减少世界贫困的可怕后果应该是重新评估的一部分。
You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk.
你可能会说经济史是人们学习管理风险的历史。
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
在有限的世界里，物质消费的无限增长是不可能的。
Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
永远不要让经济因素独自决定你的职业或你如何度过大部分时间。