为平衡方程序，总的来说，美国人就不得不出售资产(股票，不动产)或者从国外借款(通过发行财政长期债券)来偿还他们购买的商品。

To balance out the equation, Americans, in the aggregate, either have to sell assets (stocks, real estate) or borrow money from abroad (by issuing Treasury bonds) to pay for the goods they buy.

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买些当地的农产品-去农场和农贸市场转转或者考虑从CSA购买一个农业类股票。

Buy local produce - visit farms, and farmers markets or consider buying a farm share through CSA.

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据说，有人伪造文件从7家伊朗银行获取贷款，并将所贷之款用于购买国有公司的股票。

Forged documents, it is said, were used to get loans from seven Iranian Banks and the money used to buy stakes in state-owned companies.

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If you know the secrets of a company, if you know some good news about the company before the public does, you could buy the shares of the company and experience the profit when the price goes up.

如果你掌握了公司内幕信息,你能比公众更早得知,公司的利好消息,那你就会去购买公司的股票,然后从股票升值中获利

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