In bars across every big city, you can hear characters with loud voices jabbering about all the cash they hold. They got out of equities just before the market crashed.

在每个大城市的酒吧里，你都会听到有人喋喋不休地大声谈论他们持有的现金资产，以及他们如何赶在市场崩溃前将股票脱手。

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Rather than lending at a negative interest rate, you could hold onto cash by, for example, stuffing it in your mattress.

你不会以一个负利率贷款给别人，你宁愿持有现金，比方说，把钱塞在床垫里。

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When inflation is anticipated, the amount of money in circulation increases; people hold smaller cash balances because inflation erodes the value of cash.

当通胀被合理预期，流通中的货币总量增加；由于通胀腐蚀了现金的价值，人们将更少的持有现金。

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There are major internal political stresses in China and economic stresses in Japan, which could cause either or both countries to begin to cash in some of the trillions they hold in U.S. financial assets.

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In the meantime, you can either hold the cash in a money market fund, or invest it in a similar but not identical fund.

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As I pointed out in the post, Apple, Microsoft and Cisco all have huge cash positions outside the country: each of them, in fact, hold the vast majority of their balance sheet cash in foreign accounts.

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