This diagram is, I think, the most famous diagram in all of financial theory and it's actually the first theoretical diagram.

我认为这张图表，是金融学理论中最有名的一幅图了,也是第一幅理论图形。

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When people first devise some new financial instrument it typically has trouble.

当某种金融工具刚被设计出来时,它通常会存在问题

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You wonder, you know, maybe they're over imitating; maybe we were just lucky or maybe it was because the U.S. was the first, in some ways, to develop some of these financial institutions-- or one of the first.

你会怀疑,也许他们的模仿过于盲目,美国的成功,也许源于运气,也许从某方面来说,美国是第一个建立这些金融制度的国家,或者说是首批之一

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It says the price index contained this amount of beef, this amount of sheep wool, this amount of sole leather, and this amount of corn; that was the first consumer price index ever used for financial contracts.

指数中包括这些数量的牛肉,这些数量的羊毛,这些数量的鞋底皮,这些数量的玉米,这是在金融合约里出现的,第一个消费者物价指数

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