It is not always the tycoons who are the crooks.

商业大亨们不是任何时候都是坏人。

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But he was more forgiving than many, saying that we may have to look beyond our anger at the crooks, legal and otherwise, who got us into this mess.

但由于他的所作所为，人们对于他的印象会比其他更多的富翁们更加宽容些，或者说，他使得我们陷入对于他的感受可能会超越对其贪婪的愤怒或某些看似合理的陷阱中。

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And the crooks are growing more technologically sophisticated: some can even counterfeit the holograms on packets that are meant to reassure customers that pills are genuine.

而且，造假技术越来越复杂，有的连信息包上的全息图都能伪造，旨在让消费者放心，买到的是真药。

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They make the markets work because if you didn't have this there would be all kinds of crooks and bad actors.

监管使得市场有序运行,如果缺乏监管,市场就会充斥着不法商人

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Suppose they have a written contract, or even an unwritten contract, what enforces the contract for colluding firms or crooks in jail?

假如他们签了一份书面协议,或干脆口头的,他们怎么强制履行呢

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Good, so in the standard story you've got these two crooks, or two accused crooks, and they're in separate cells and they're being interviewed separately--kept apart--and they're both told that if neither of them rats the other guy out, they'll go to jail for say a year.

在故事里有两个罪犯,他们都被指控了 被分别关进了牢房,他们俩被单独提审,两人都知道如果他们不坦白,他们都要只需要坐一年牢

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The government countered that the crooks' operation, which included the armored-car service, routinely commingled customers' money.

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So the crooks have moved on, using the identities of all sorts of living folks.

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The crooks perpetrated their fraud during the time of record-high oil prices in 2008.

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