A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经济
Economy
In these difficult financial times for so many of our districts, as our local leaders strive to balance their budgets by cutting services, we would be irresponsible not to invest in the arts.
在我们许多地区的财政困难时期，当我们的地方领导人努力通过削减服务来平衡预算时，我们不投资于艺术将是不负责任的。
Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
如今，持有现金等价物的人感觉很舒服。他们不应该。他们选择了一种糟糕的长期资产，这种资产几乎不支付任何费用，而且肯定会贬值。
While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day.
虽然最富有的家庭完全受益于针对高收入阶层的减税政策，但中等收入家庭却受到了税收日增税这一令人不快的意外打击。
This ability to have reliable sources of energy and a reliable transmission of energy here in North America is critical for both of us and for Mexico as we want to keep our economies growing.
在北美拥有可靠的能源来源和可靠的能源传输对我们两国都至关重要，因为我们希望保持我们的经济增长。
The globalization of the capital market is actually part of economic globalization. This will create a change in the entire world economy, not just restricted to some fields in some countries.
资本市场的全球化实际上是经济全球化的一部分。这将改变整个世界经济，而不仅仅局限于某些国家的某些领域。
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
经济学的第一课是稀缺性:任何东西永远不会足够满足所有想要它的人。政治的第一课是忽视经济学的第一课。
We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards.
我们需要继续投资于经济和国土安全。我们需要依靠正确的经济发展。我们需要拥抱机遇，但要有正确的保障措施。
Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income or in terms of an enhanced quality of life.
几乎所有的教育支出都应被视为资本支出，不论其将来的回报是增加应税收入，还是提高生活质量。
The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.
让很多人自愿合作的唯一方法就是通过自由市场。这就是为什么保护个人自由如此重要。
I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.
我相信你们可以回去做一个图表显示所有对黑人男性的杀戮都是在经济困难时期增加的。事实上，去年有一个黑人被私刑处死。
Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum.
人是一种手段而不是目的，他是达到经济或政治目的的一种手段，而经济或政治目的本身并不是真正的目的，而是达到其他目的的手段，而这些目的反过来又是手段，如此无穷。
Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares.
从经济学的角度来看，广告实际上是一个简单的现象。它只是一种个人销售力量的替代品——如果你愿意，可以说是大声叫卖商品的商人的延伸。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。