The energetic growth and technological advance of the western economies suggest that our financial system has done this job pretty well over long periods.

西方经济体充满活力的增长和技术进步表明，在很长时期内，我们的金融体系在这方面做得相当出色。

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Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, in their book "This Time is Different", argued that past financial crises have been followed by long periods of sluggish growth.

卡门瑞哈特及肯尼斯·罗格夫在其新作《这次有所不同》中提到，之前，经济危机过后，经济都长时间增长滞缓。

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Historically, big financial crises have been followed by long periods of slow growth and economic malaise, and the recent crisis has been bigger than most.

在历史上，严重金融危机之后必定跟随着增长缓慢和经济不振，而最近的这次金融危机是有史以来最严重的一次。

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The crucial question is one that the Bank does actually ask: can rapid growth persist over long periods without improving the lot of the poor?

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In contrast to the stock market, which over long periods offers positive returns linked to the growth in the economy, commodity trading is a zero-sum game.

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To control for this fact, we looked at long-term compounded growth in earnings(2) in order to see how companies grow over extended periods of time.

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