Paying out lots of cash, unless you really have to, is not in the interest of the firm and is not in the interest of the public."

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Unfortunately, I've never taken a course in it, but I've started reading it lately out of just my broad intellectual interest.

遗憾的是,我从未上过有机化学课,但我最近开始读一些相关的书,这是我广泛爱好中的一种

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Why don't I lend some of it out and I can earn interest on the loan and make money.

为什么我不贷一部分出去呢,这样我就可以通过贷款赚利息了

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It may be obvious to you, the developer or the computer scientist or the engineer, well, obviously, I just click, here, here, here, here, here, here and voila, out comes my ticket, but most people don't have an interest in that process and a lot of people, this person in particular, just don't necessarily understand that process.

这对于开发人员，或者计算机专家或者工程师,可能是显而易见的，呃，显然地，我只要点击这里，这里，这里，这里，这里，瞧，我的票出来了，但是大多数人没有兴致,来做这些步骤，很多的人，特别是这个人，不见得懂得这些步骤。

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He was a very prominent exponent of the idea that people should go out for their own interest.

他是个非常卓越的倡导者,他提倡人们应该追求自己的利益

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You've got this policy tool of interest rates but once it hits zero you're out of business.

你拥有利率这一政策工具,但是一旦利率达到零点，你便失业了。

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Forward rates I wrote a survey article years ago about the term structure of interest rates and I wanted to find out who was the originator of the term "forward rate."

远期利率,很多年前我写过一篇,研究利率期限结构的文章,我想知道谁是"远期利率"这个词的创始人

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All the groups that stand to win or lose from it are all figuring out what it does to them and they're taking the positions out of self-interest So, I wanted to write something that was more perspicacious if I could manage that.

所有人无论赞同或者不赞同这个改革,都试图搞清楚这个改革对他们将有什么影响,从自身利益来讲，想搞清楚他们究竟能得到什么,所以，如果我可以的话,我更希望我能写一些独具慧眼的东西。

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