The Fed is a racket at heart, a con game writ large — what else can you call an organization with the exclusive privilege of printing money in the trillions and handing it over to friends?

美联储从本质上说就是一个骗局，一个显而易见的欺诈——对一个拥有肆意印钱达到万亿水平特权的、并把钱交给其狐朋狗友的独一无二机构，你还能称它什么？

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This effectively undermines the entire purpose of the patent system: the Patent Office is charging applicants serious money for giving it the privilege of giving away their commercial secrets.

这有效地破坏了整个专利制度的目的：专利局向申请人收费，而却给予他们泄漏商业秘密的特权。

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You'll pay a lot of money for the privilege-one-third of the employee's first - year salary, or more-but you'll probably end up with truly topnotch candidates for your job.

你要为这种特权花一大把钱——先得支付受聘员工头年年薪的三分之一，甚至更多——但是你也许真会找到超牛的应聘者。

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And also lots of money, very wealthy, lots of beautiful stores, beautiful houses, lots of privilege.

这里是个金钱的世界，很富有，有很多华丽的商店和许多特权。

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Yet if the risks in the eurozone are receding, why are investors still parking most of their money in "safe haven" German bonds -- and even paying Berlin for the privilege of lending it money as the negative yields at recent auctions of short-term German bonds illustrate?

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Bank deposit rates are lower than the pace of inflation, meaning savers effectively pay banks for the privilege of handling their money.

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French economics: you must pay for the privilege of sending us money.

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