These are really financial bets on whether some asset will gain or lose value.

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But in 1860 American slaves, as a financial asset, were worth approximately three and a half billion dollars that's just as property.

但在1860年,美国奴隶作为财产所有,市值约35亿美元,只是作为财产而言

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Slaves were the single largest, by far, financial asset of property in the entire American economy.

截止至今,在美国经济中,奴隶是最庞大的经济资产

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It turns out that it's not a financial law that asset allocation takes center stage; it really is more a description of how it is that we behave.

事实上,资产配置的核心地位,还称不上是金融学定理,但它确实已不仅仅是对我们行为的描述

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