” is the question posed by one of the characters in “The Big Short”, Michael Lewis’s new book on those few investors who bet against the subprime-mortgage market.

这个问题出自迈克尔.刘易斯的新书《The Big Short》中某一人物之口，书中的投资者们在与次级抵押贷款市场的赌博中血本无归。

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That may sound odd, but the fact is at the moment of the Big Bang, both matter and anti-matter were created for a short time, and I mean just a fraction of a second.

这听起来可能很奇怪，但事实是在大爆炸的那一刻，物质和反物质都是在很短的时间内被创造出来的，我的意思是只有几分之一秒。

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That may sound odd, but the fact is at the moment of the big bang, both matter and antimatter were created for a short time.

那听起来可能很奇怪，但事实是：在大爆炸的那一刻，物质和反物质都在很短的时间内被创造出来。

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Gadamer acknowledges this, even insists on it as I say, but he doesn't lay stress on it because the gap that is implied in the need to be pulled up short is not a big one.

葛达玛承认，甚至坚持这点，正如我所说的，但他并不强调这个,因为“突然停下“所暗含的缺口,并不大。

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The other thing that I mentioned last time was that there seems to be a really big difference between the expected return on the stock market and the expected return on short-term debt.

上节课提到的另一条内容是,股票市场的预期收益,与短期债券的预期收益,存在着巨大差异

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Here, The Big Short was The Big Illegal Short.

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Pershing Square has underperformed the U.S. stock market for two straight years after fees, even with the big short promotion of Herbalife in December, which included a presentation on a New York City stage.

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In his book The Big Short, Michael Lewis makes clear that some investment professionals were stunned at the impropriety of the assumption and believed that at least some of the principals involved knew or suspected that a bubble was underway and that mortgage-related assets were overpriced.

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