A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经济
Economy
I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
我给自己设定了一个任务,那就是让劳动力重新回到工作中来,为经济创造良好的环境,这将花费我一年的时间。
Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.
现在,我要告诉大家的一件事是了解房地产。跟我重复一遍:房地产提供最高的回报,最大的价值和最小的风险。
Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
繁荣还是平均主义——你必须做出选择。我支持自由——你永远不会实现真正的平等:你只是为了一个幻想而牺牲繁荣。
In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's the oil in the engine.
在正常时期,投资者应该更加关注信贷市场,因为它是推动一切的动力。是引擎里的油。
With the increased cost of gasoline, it doesn't appear that we're going to see a slowing of interest in mass transit. I think it's going to continue to grow.
随着汽油价格的上涨,人们对公共交通的兴趣似乎不会减弱。我认为它将继续增长。
As much as it's sometimes hard to make choices about where you invest, it's equally hard to make choices about where you don't invest and what you eliminate.
虽然有时很难选择在哪里投资,但同样也很难选择不投资的地方和不投资的地方。
In a normal time, I don't think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes all the difference in the world.
在正常情况下,我不认为经济政策会有多大影响。但在危机时期,它使世界变得完全不同。
But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.
但我们也可以采取激进的观点,即经济的考验与它为每个人提供体面生活方式的程度有关。
You have to ask what is going to happen to a lot of companies when there is not a lot more money to be gotten. That changes everybody's perspective, I think.
你不得不问,当没有更多的钱可赚时,很多公司会发生什么。我认为这改变了每个人的观点。
Renewable ethanol represents a clear opportunity to grow a significant portion of our own fuel locally and begin to break the hold imported fuels have on us.
可再生乙醇为我们提供了一个明显的机会,可以在本地生产我们大部分的燃料,并开始打破进口燃料对我们的控制。
And let the Fed sell bonds to bring bank reserves back down to required reserve levels, so we have restraint on bank lending and bank issuances of liability.
让美联储出售债券,将银行准备金降至法定准备金水平,这样我们就可以限制银行贷款和银行发行债务。
Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.
从长远来看,航空公司会在竞争中保持理性。对乘客来说,竞争是好的,因为每个竞争者都试图以低于对方的价格竞争。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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 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。
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。
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。
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。