This proved wishful thinking as, too often, shareholders opted for quick profits rather than long-term returns.

现在这被证明为痴心妄想，股东通常会选择快速盈利而不是长期回报。

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Much has been made of the exciting long-term returns from benchmarks such as the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index.

很多错误源自于那些象高盛商品指数这类的市场标杆的令人振奋的长期收益。

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Bonds offered too low a yield to produce exciting long-term returns.

债券的收益率太低，而不能提供令人兴奋的长期收益。

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There is no magic that insurance companies can do to enhance long term returns on a bond portfolio, and given the costs involved most investors would be far better served to invest in a short-term, high quality bond index fund.

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With this approach, because standard, long term, market investment returns are so much higher than the implicit returns paid by completely noninvested, pay-as-you-go Social Security, all workers who exercise the personal accounts would receive more in benefits through the personal accounts earning standard long term returns than the Social Security benefits they replace.

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Because the long term returns from real savings and investment are so much higher, saving and investing over a lifetime the 2.9% Medicare payroll tax in the personal accounts would produce an income stream in retirement roughly three times as large as the uninvested, tax and spend, purely redistributive, pay-as-you-go Medicare payroll tax today.

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