If demand remains weak, firms will stop adding to this stock of capital and may scrap some of it.

如果需求持续低迷，公司将停止增加资本存量，还可能处置掉一些。

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Even today, after the bursting of the stock-market bubble, American venture-capital firms—which are in the business of betting on the future—dwarf the firms from all other nations.

即使是在股市泡沫破裂之后的今天，美国的风险投资公司——它们从事的是押注未来的业务——也让所有其他国家的公司相形见绌。

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It does not matter whether we perceive an increased buffer as part of a nation's capital stock, or as part of the net equity of the country.

至于我们应该把增加的“缓冲”资源看作一国资本存量的一部分，还是一国净资产的一部分，那是无关紧要的。

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Increased savings would increase the stock of capital necessary on the way to plentiful jobs.

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It is new investment, net private investment over and above that required to maintain the current stock of capital that drives the economy forward.

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Remove tens of billions of dollars invested in oil installations in Nigeria, Angola, Gabon and (more recently) in Sudan and Equatorial Guinea, and the stock of capital invested elsewhere in the continent is pitifully small.

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