We are stuck with the dollar standard for many years.

多少年来我们一直陷入在美国本位的泥潭里。

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Yet the dollar standard is one of the most vulnerable pillars of global stability. And the world is far from ready for America to ditch its global financial role.

然而，美元本位制却是最脆弱的全球稳定支柱中的一根，而且这个世界也还远未对美国放弃其全球金融角色做好准备。

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The implied PPP, our hamburger standard, is the exchange rate that makes the dollar price of a burger the same in each country.

暗含其中的购买力平价理论、我们的汉堡标准是让汉堡的美元价格在每个国家都保持一致的汇率。

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They believed the gold standard would keep the value of the dollar high.

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Under the gold standard your dollar bill represented so many ounces of gold and you were supposed to be able to always get that gold.

在金本位制度下,你的纸币表示着,很多盎司的金子,并且你可以一直兑换那些金子。

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A gold standard,they said, would keep the value of the dollar high.

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Yet the drift to the dollar standard was somehow judged as a sign of progress.

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According to a recent study by the Bank of England, when compared to even the flawed, post World War II gold standard, the paper dollar standard has been a disaster whose true dimensions have been disguised by the time over which it has been inflicted on people all over the world.

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During our subsequent 41 years of the paper dollar standard, in which the dollar has had no defined value and has been backed only by empty political promises, growth has averaged 2.8%.

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