It's a very important observation in finance that returns on a lot of speculative assets have fat-tailed distributions.

在金融界中,这是一种重要的观测方法,许多投机性资产的收益,都是服从长尾分布的

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About two-thirds of those went by outright sale, by financial speculation, in now a growing huge American business of the domestic slave trade.

大约有三分之二的人都被,金融投机所买断,被投入一个日益庞大的,国内奴隶贸易的美国商业市场

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And some fortunes will begin to be made in simple financial speculation.

一些机遇会开始于,简单的金融投机买卖

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