A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经济
Economy
My role is not to choose between safeguarding the economy and protecting the environment - it's about doing both.
我的职责不是在保护经济和保护环境之间做出选择——而是两者兼顾。
Our current tendency to take our economic blood pressure every few minutes...obfuscates thought on many problems.
我们现在倾向于每隔几分钟测量一次经济血压…混淆了许多问题的思路。
I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that.
我身边都是这个国家最优秀的经济学家，希望我能吸收其中的一些。
Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.
向贫困家庭征税与几十年来帮助人们通过工作摆脱贫困的努力背道而驰。
The real danger with debt is what happens if lots of people decide, or are forced, to pay it off at the same time.
债务的真正危险在于，如果许多人同时决定或被迫偿还债务，将会发生什么。
My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.
然而，我对预算的关注，在我认为更为重要的事情——创造就业岗位上，已经退居其次。
The casinos brought lots of revenue and jobs to our community. We've seen lots of benefits from those tax dollars.
赌场给我们的社区带来了很多收入和就业机会。我们已经看到这些税收带来了很多好处。
I'm telling you that there is no silver bullet to keep home prices from going down or to prevent all foreclosures.
我要告诉你们的是，没有什么灵丹妙药可以阻止房价下跌，或者防止所有人丧失房屋赎回权。
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.
我们不能再靠提高人类生产力而繁荣。我们越努力，就会越贫穷。
And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporate shenanigans.
这是公平的。每个人都将缴纳相同的税款，这将消除偷税漏税和公司的诡计。
If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.
如果你想了解地质学，那就研究地震。如果你想了解经济，那就研究一下大萧条。
But I would bet that the euro continues to exist and that its importance as a global currency will likely increase.
但我敢打赌，欧元将继续存在，它作为一种全球货币的重要性可能会上升。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。