Rising confidence is a good omen, since it can turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy by encouraging people to go out and spend money.

不断增长的信心是个好兆头。 原因在于，这种信心可以转化为一种自我实现的预言：它可以鼓励人们增加开支。

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Just as a recovery needs a self-supporting cycle of rising production, income and spending, so a recession needs the opposite.

正如一次回升需要一个关于生产，收入和支出都处于上升的自给循环，对衰退来说，正是反之亦然。

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In this sense, all competition is self-competition, rising to one's highest and best.

从这个意义上来说，所有的比赛都是对自我的挑战，让自己做到最高和最好。

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Negative effects from endogenous price rises are self-limiting: if rising gas prices hurt expectations of economic growth, then lower expected economic growth should cause gas prices to fall.

FORBES: Gas Prices Are an Endogenous Variable

Part of the African Pride Hotel group, the Melrose Arch Hotel has redefined urban chic in a city which I have come to fully embrace for its diversity and rising self-confidence, finally emerging strong from many years of its turbulent past.

FORBES: Connect

The tone seems stuck at a lazy bonhomie, amusement for a rising, self-satisfied commercial class.

NEWYORKER: Haarlem Shuffle