A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经济
Economy
Competition among insurers would bring down the cost of health care insurance, just as it brings down the cost of car or homeowners insurance.
保险公司之间的竞争将降低医疗保险的成本，就像降低汽车或房屋保险的成本一样。
We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.
我们需要确保中产阶级有能力支付账单。我们需要确保穷人不会挨饿。这些也是价值观。
No loan is free. The costs are in your loan somewhere, maybe rolled into the amount to be refinanced or even coming at a higher interest rate.
没有免费的贷款。这些成本存在于你的贷款中，可能会转化为需要再融资的金额，甚至会以更高的利率出现。
The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.
共同基金的最佳理由是，它们提供了安全性和多样化。但它们不一定提供安全性和多样化。
I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.
我反对任何个人税收，除非我们废除所有违宪的机构，我怀疑在那之后我们就不需要征税了。
It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.
如果不谈公司的经济义务，就谈公司的社会义务是没有意义的。这两者是交织在一起的。
The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.
富人的狗在疫苗、药物和医疗保健方面得到的好处，要比富人的财富建立在其身上的工人多。
The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products.
个人服务于工业体系，不是通过提供储蓄和由此产生的资本;他通过消费它的产品来服务它。
Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.
你有没有想过，做一个关于经济的演讲就像尿裤子一样?对你来说似乎很热，但对其他人来说从来都不热。
The biggest culprits in the housing fiasco came from the private sector, and more specifically from a mortgage industry that was out of control.
房地产市场惨败的最大罪魁祸首来自私营部门，更确切地说，来自失控的抵押贷款行业。
This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
这个岛主要由煤构成，周围有鱼。只有有组织才能同时产生煤和鱼的短缺。
Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.
国会还必须制定促进经济增长的政策，鼓励经济增长:比如将税收减免永久化和废除遗产税。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
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。