In principle, you could bill your clients for fractions of a second or fractions of a minute.

原则上,你可以按分钟或者按秒钟,从你的客户那里收取费用

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Under the gold standard your dollar bill represented so many ounces of gold and you were supposed to be able to always get that gold.

在金本位制度下,你的纸币表示着,很多盎司的金子,并且你可以一直兑换那些金子。

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So, ownership of stocks absolutely crushes buying bonds -almost 16,000 times your money or more than 3,000 times your money in the stock market as opposed to 72 times your money or 19 times your money in the bond market or the bill market.

股票的收益率远远超过债券,小盘股的收益差不多16000倍于本金,而大盘收益也翻了300倍以上,相比长期债券的72倍,和短期债券的19倍

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