A sinking dollar means a poorer nation and a superpower with a sinking currency is a contradiction in terms."

美元疲软意味着国家的衰落,而美国本身又是个超级大国,两者未免自相矛盾“

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Just by comparison, official US government aid for developing countries, is currently 16 billion dollars.

相比之下，美国政府,对发展中国家的官方资助是160亿美元。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

You were sort of in a punchbowl The country was at a party and we kept drinking from this punchbowl, enjoying ourselves, and the rest of the world would take our dollars.

你就有点像在一个动力十足的碗里,那样的话，整个国家就像是一个大派对，我们在这个,动力十足的碗里畅饮，尽情愉悦，世界其他国家或地区的人也会接受美元。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选