That may be a familiar enough concept to you, but in the context of finance this is a major concept.

这个概念你们应该很熟悉了,在金融学中,这是个很重要的概念

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A futures market has a prediction going out years into the future of what every financial variable will be doing, so you can see the future in a sense through the futures prices.

一个期货交易市场,预测了未来几年,每个金融变量的变化,因此,在某种意义上,你们可以通过期货价格分析未来市场

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It's getting better year by year and the course of finance over your lifetime will be dramatic, so the financial institutions that we have ten years from now will look very different from the ones we have now.

年复一年,金融技术越来越出色,而在你们的有生之年,金融学的课题,都将引人注目,正因为此,和今天的金融机构相比,十年后的金融机构,会有着巨大的差距

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