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经济
Economy
And I think we need a combination of a freeze, potentially, and also we need to sit down with the - with the banking industry and talk to them about ways in which we can help them be able to work those mortgages out, because it's absolutely imperative that we keep people in their homes.
我认为我们需要冻结的组合,可能我们还需要坐下来——银行业和他们谈论我们可以帮助他们能够解决这些抵押贷款,因为它是绝对必要的,我们让人们在他们的房子里。
The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.
通过匹配人们的技能、兴趣和能力，使大多数人获得最大成功的系统是自由企业。相比之下，再分配只是简单地把钱分散开来。更糟糕的是，它削弱了通过扭曲经济激励机制获得成功的能力。
If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.
如果我们想拥有文明，并为文明的成功付出必不可少的努力，我们就必须拥有财产;如果我们有财产，就必须有它的权利;如果我们拥有财产权，我们就必须承担财产权的后果，这些后果与财产权本身是不可分割的。
What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.
华尔街和信用卡公司所做的，实际上与黑帮和高利贷者所做的并无太大不同，后者发放掠夺性贷款。虽然银行家们穿着三件套西装，不会把那些无力还款的人的膝盖骨弄断，但他们仍在破坏人们的生活。
Lenin was right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.
列宁是正确的。要推翻现有的社会基础，没有比让货币贬值更微妙、更可靠的方法了。这一过程牵涉到破坏方面的经济法的所有隐藏力量，其方式是百万分之一的人无法诊断的。
Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.
十年前，我说，你知道，我的目标是能够让食物上桌。我想说的是努力创造一个充满活力、有能力和有效的中产阶级。我们做得越快、越强，政治改革就越容易推进。
The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don't things are just going to head in a direction that's going to be almost impossible to recover from.
债务上限必须降低。就这个国家而言，整个世界的债务都必须改变。我们必须创造就业，而且必须迅速创造就业，因为如果我们不这样做，事情就会朝着一个几乎不可能复苏的方向发展。
No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn't a winning strategy - but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come.
任何人都不应指望他们的房子的价值升值很快,指望你的家你的退休储蓄的重要组成部分不是一个成功的策略——但这是合理的期望价格通常至少与通货膨胀率将会上升一段时间。
Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
以前以一杯为单位开出的经济药方，最近却以桶为单位开出。这些曾经难以想象的剂量几乎肯定会带来不受欢迎的后遗症。它们的确切性质谁也说不准，不过一个可能的后果是通胀的猛攻。
So, look, in order to move our country forward, we have to do the things our parents and grandparents did. They believed enough in our country to invest in our country, to create jobs, to make modern investments. And those are the things that we need to get back to with a balanced approach.
所以，看，为了推动我们的国家向前发展，我们必须做我们的父母和祖父母所做的事情。他们对我们的国家有足够的信心来投资我们的国家，创造就业机会，进行现代投资。这些都是我们需要回到平衡的方法。
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.
资产阶级社会被一种偏执所感染:会计的一种偏执。对它来说，唯一有价值的东西就是可以用法郎和生丁来计算的东西。它从不犹豫牺牲人的生命来换取纸面上看起来不错的数字，比如国家预算或工业资产负债表。
Investor demand for distressed property has been healthy, as rents rise to levels that can cover investors' costs while they wait for properties to appreciate. Giving investors a small tax break should further juice up demand, supporting prices for distressed homes and the market in general.
投资者对陷入困境的房产的需求一直很健康，租金上涨到足以支付投资者等待房产升值的成本的水平。给投资者一个小的税收减免应该会进一步刺激需求，支撑陷入困境的房屋和整个市场的价格。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.
经济增长和环境保护并不矛盾。如果你着眼于长期的繁荣，它们是同一枚硬币的两面。