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彼得希夫说话比较武断，对错水分还得自己判断。
1.finding better ways of producing more stuff that humans want. This doesn’t change…no matter how big an economy eventually gets. basic economic principles do not change with the size of the economy. They’re just harder to see because of the many layers that exist between savers and borrowers.

2.Only by increasing supply can people actually get more of what they demand.

3.In fact, history is littered with grandiose schemes hatched in government think tanks that have simply not delivered on their promise.

4.As a result, these types of business plans tend to attract willing lenders. Much like Darwin’s idea that natural selection produces hardier species, this lending discipline tends to produce healthier companies and a stronger economy.

5.Savings are not just a means to increase one’s ability to spend. They are an essential buffer that shields economies from the unexpected.

6.We are told that if prices were to fall, people would stop buying, companies would stop spending, workers would lose their jobs, and we would all return to the economic dark ages.

7.inflation is every politician’s best friend.

8.the Fed’s decisions are always determined by political, rather than economic, considerations.

9.it is not the aim of an economy to provide jobs. The goal is
simply to maximize productivity.

10.If government is obligated to cure all hardships, then no one is really free in the fi rst place. Take away the freedom to fail and you have obliterated the freedom to succeed.

11.by 1976 the United States began running persistent trade deficits.

12.Normally, trade defi cits tend to be self-correcting. But the dollar’s reserve status, and the decision of the Chinese government to maintain the currency peg, has gummed up the machinery and has allowed the situation to grow dangerously out of kilter.

13.Precious metals have all the qualities that make money valuable and useful: scarcity, desirability, uniformity, durability, and malleability.

14.Default, which does offer the possibility of a real reckoning and a fresh beginning, is actually the better alternative. Unfortunately, while inflation is worse, it is also the more politically expedient

15.The most successful ventures would have been those that most efficiently gave the people what they wanted, when they wanted it

16.In 2009 our national savings rate ticked up for the fi rst time in years, and our trade defi cit fi nally began to shrink after its dizzying ascent earlier in the decade. But the Bush and Obama stimulus programs put a stop to this.

17.There is a limit to how high taxes can go. Raise them enough, and people stop working. Raise them higher, and they may even start rioting.