Sceptics retort that the calm of markets is an illusion caused by benign economic conditions and excess liquidity.

反对者认为乐观的经济情况和过渡的流动性导致了市场平静的表象。

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The unprecedented prosperity and material excess lure people into an illusion that everyone can get rich overnight.

空前的繁荣和物质的过甚诱发人们一种幻觉，似乎谁都可以一夜变富。

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The sequence of ear-catching new formats created an illusion of prosperity that fuelled the record companies' taste for excess.

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