新视野大学英语视听说教程 2 Unit 7-4
时间：2018-12-29 作者：英语课 分类：新视野大学英语：视听说教程 2
Task 3: Why not just print money?
What’s the solution to a recession 1, a time of little economic activity? Just print money! Sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Let’s see if this will work by using an example.
Let’s pretend 2 that all the students in your class make up the ENTER population of the country, and the teacher represents 3 the government. Let’s also pretend each student has exactly $1.00.
Since we are in a recession, let’s have the teacher, who represents the government, print money. He prints $1.00 more for everyone. Now everyone has $1.00 more to spend. More money to spend sounds like a great way to get us out of recession, since more money to spend means 4 demand for goods and services.
Then if that works 5, why don’t we give MORE money away? How about $100? Now we have lots of money to spend. So no more recession, right?
Not really, because we have only looked at one side of the problem. As more and more people receive more and more money, what’ll happen?
Since everyone has more money, the students all go shopping to spend that extra money. This causes the demand for goods and services to rise, and people who sell goods and services raise price. For example, if you could buy a new music CD at $10 in the past, now the price could be $1,000! This is called inflation 6.
So, the original reason for printing all this money was to help get us of recession, but we have only replaced one problem with another.
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- Manufacturing fell sharply under the impact of the recession.受到经济萧条的影响，制造业急剧衰退。
- A rise in interest rates plunged Britain deeper into recession.利率的提高导致英国经济更加萧条。
- So you don't need to pretend,do you?所以你不必装假了，对吧？
- Many people pretend that they understand modern art.许多人装着自己懂得现代艺术。
- This represents a volte-face in government thinking. 这代表着政府观点的彻底转变。
- The Russian Revolution represents a landmark in world history. 俄国革命是世界历史上的一个里程碑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
- We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
- We expect writers to produce more and better works.我们期望作家们写出更多更好的作品。
- The novel is regarded as one of the classic works.这篇小说被公认为是最优秀的作品之一。