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经济
Economy
The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?
真正的斗争是关于什么应该在市场上，什么不应该。教育应该是一种适销对路的商品吗?该医疗?
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
地球只能提供这么多的恩惠，而为这些恩惠创造出越来越大、越来越高的名义价格，并不会改变它的实际价值。
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
在没有金本位的情况下，没有办法保护储蓄不被通货膨胀没收。没有安全的价值储存手段。
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
根据我所能形成的最好的理论，人类由两个截然不同的种族组成，一个是借钱的人，另一个是借钱的人。
Although woman has performed much of the labor of the world, her industry and economy have been the very means of increasing her degradation.
虽然妇女承担了世界上大部分的劳动，但她的工业和经济却成为加剧她堕落的手段。
The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.
今天唯一的危险是，由于过度依赖借款，我们可能面临长期停滞。
The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts.
股市对首席执行官有一种潜在的影响这不仅影响到他们的公司，也影响到他们自己的银行账户。
It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high.
这是市场经济。显然，对优秀教练的需求超过了供给，所以优秀教练的价格当然会很高。
If a currency is to become a growing, an increasing reserve currency, there has to be not only a demand for it there has to be a supply of it.
如果一种货币要成为一种不断增长的储备货币，不仅要有对它的需求，还要有它的供给。
You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.
你不可能永远压榨经济中有生产力的部分，以资助对无生产力部分前所未有的大量消费。
Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.
墨西哥迫切需要进行一系列结构性改革，以再次激发其真正的经济潜力，创造更多的公共福利。
In order to consolidate the euro we need to harmonise our economic, fiscal and social policies, hence we are going toward greater integration.
为了巩固欧元，我们需要协调我们的经济、财政和社会政策，因此我们正走向更大的一体化。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
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。