One man's mystical haven for wealth is another's unproductive barbarous relic .

一个人的神秘的财富庇护所则是另一个人的不毛的荒凉废墟。

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The gold standard — which John Maynard Keynes termed a “barbarous relic” — led to ruinous deflations.

约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯称为“野蛮的遗迹”的金本位制导致了极大的破坏性。

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The gold standard — which John Maynard Keynes termed a "barbarous relic" — led to ruinous deflations.

约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯称金本位制为“野蛮的遗迹”——导致了极大的破坏性。

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They think it is a "barbarous relic, " as John Maynard Keynes described the gold standard, and a superstition rather than an investment.

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Today the price of what Keynes called the barbarous relic is the highest it's been since 1980, up 150% from its 2001 lows.

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When he wrote the Tract the classical gold standard already had been fundamentally gutted by the Genoa Accord of 1922 and, yes indeed, thereby converted into a barbarous relic.

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