I think people should be able to do that without having to convince 280 million people.

本应不用说服2亿8千万人,就能拥有这些权利的。

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It doesn't match up very well though because interest rates have been going down since 1980 and the boom is very sudden, so it seems to me that Greenspan should have seen this bubble coming.

虽然这说法有些瑕疵,因为利率自1980年开始就一直下降,但繁荣却突如其来,所以我觉得,格林斯潘本应能看到泡沫的发生

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And we've all been in this, where we know that it's shameful to look at this, just drive on, as Socrates would say " "mind your own business," and yet at the same time we feel, even against our will, compelled to look and think about that.

而我们都经历过这码子事，我们都明白那是不道德的人才看，我们本应继续驶离，就像苏格拉底会说的,“管好你自己的事“,但同时我们就算是违意，仍不得不看，并满脑子想着要看。

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I wanted to mention in this context, because I'm emphasizing how banks help solve the adverse selection and moral hazard problem -I wanted to mention briefly here also the rating agencies, which fulfill some of these functions.

我早就想在这段内容里讲讲这事了,因为我一直强调,银行是如何帮助解决逆向选择,以及道德风险问题的...,我还一直想在这里简要的提下,本应履行这些职能的那些信用评级机构

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