"We have had depressions," "We have had recessions. It is a boom and bust cycle that we are having and people are starting to get fed up with it."

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General Motors at its height, when I was growing up in Flint, Michigan, in boom times, would've wished it could've said that.

即使是通用汽车鼎盛时期,那时我还是个孩子生活在密歇根的弗林特,也没能有如此辉煌的成绩

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They started something that you may have heard of called The Baby Boom, so the birth rate shot way up and everyone wanted a home.

你们应该听说过那时候开始的,所谓的婴儿潮,出生率激增而且每个人都想要一套房子

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Suppose I hold up my boom box for you and it's playing music.

假设我拿着我的扬声器给你们播放音乐

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It doesn't match up very well though because interest rates have been going down since 1980 and the boom is very sudden, so it seems to me that Greenspan should have seen this bubble coming.

虽然这说法有些瑕疵,因为利率自1980年开始就一直下降,但繁荣却突如其来,所以我觉得,格林斯潘本应能看到泡沫的发生

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