That means there's little money around for investment that would make cities liveable and more productive.

这意味着没有多少钱可以用于投资那些让城市变得更宜居、更具有生产力的项目。

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Perhaps even greater is the investment your donated rice makes in hungry human beings, enabling them to function and be productive.

也许更重要的是因为你的捐助，让饥饿的人们恢复活力能够投入生产。

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Venture investment during recessions may actually be more productive, per dollar spent, than during booms, when money is showered on many variants of the same business plan.

在萧条时期的风险投资可能确实比繁荣时期更高产，萧条时期的一美元投入相当于当繁荣时期资金被大把投入到同样商业计划的许多变体。

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He said massive fiscal deficits will constrain economic growth and job creation, increase inflationary risks, boost interest rates, and reduce private investment in productive enterprises.

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The Real Dow is important, because it is a measure of the impetus for productive investment.

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Proper fiscal policy is the way to keep capital in productive investment.

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In this rotten environment, speculation is rewarded, and productive investment is crushed.

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