It's only out of fear and greed that the illusion of money is held together by billions of people thinking that money is real.

正是由于恐惧和贪婪使无数的人抱着这个幻觉还以为它是真实的。

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With all that reflection and refraction, modernism creates the illusion that there is an illusion when in fact it is a straightforward statement of money and power.

通过反射和折射，现代主义创造了一个幻觉存在的假象，而实际上它是对金钱和权力不加掩饰的声明。

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Class is a tangled web of education, taste, history and illusion - but follow the money, and income matches class pretty accurately.

阶级是个融合了教育、品味、历史和幻觉的复杂网络——却与钱相关，而且收入与阶级的匹配相当精确。

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The Illusion of Modern Money by Bill Bonner originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning.

FORBES: The Illusion Of Modern Money

The illusion of easy money has turned a few heads on the subcontinent.

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Worse, with consumer prices sticky in concert with commodity prices that are most sensitive to dollar-price movements, the beneficiaries of the money illusion tend to be the hard, unproductive assets of yesterday (think housing, art, rare stamps, and oil) that are least vulnerable to currency weakness, and which in fact do best when the unit of account is devalued.

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