More than 220 years after Hamilton made his case for a fiscal union, America's national debt no longer answers all of the purposes of money.

在汉米尔顿为财务联盟做得这件事的220年后，美国国债不用再回答类似花钱的目的的问题了。

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When the national debt is “an object of established confidence”, Hamilton argued, “it answers most of the purposes of money.”

当国债是“一种建立信心的物品”时，汉米尔顿评论说“它回答大多数以金钱为目的的问题”。

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Coyle, his co-author, said that when he first began talking to Hamilton for "The Secret Race, " Hamilton's answers came so slowly he could transcribe every word and comma easily, by hand, with no abbreviations.

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