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中英文本
Cash injection: could we cure all disease with a trillion dollars?
资金注入:一万亿美元能治愈所有疾病吗?
Could such a large amount of money end the Covid pandemic? Eradicate disease? Provide universal healthcare and fund vaccine research?
这么多钱能结束新冠吗?能彻底根除疾病吗?能提供全民保健,资助疫苗研究吗?
by Rowan Hooper
作者:罗恩·奥佩尔
You know that daydream where you suddenly come into a vast fortune? You could buy a castle or a tropical island hideaway, help out all your friends, do a bit of good in the world. But what if it was a truly incredible sum? What if you had $1tn to spend, and a year to do it? And what if the rules of the game were that you had to do it for the world – make some real difference to people's lives, or to the health of the planet, or to the advancement of science.
你知道那种突然有了一笔巨款的白日梦吧?你可以买下一座城堡或者一座热带岛屿,帮助自己所有的朋友,为世界做点好事
A trillion dollars – that's one thousand billion dollars – is at once an absurdly huge amount of money, and not that much in the scheme of things. It is, give or take, 1% of world GDP. It's what the US spends every year and a half on the military. It is an amount that can be quite easily rustled up through the smoke and mirrors of quantitative easing, which is officially the mass purchase of government bonds, but which looks suspiciously like the spontaneous creation of money. After the 2008 financial crash, more than $4.5tn was quantitatively eased in the US alone. All the other major economies made their own money in this ghostly way.
一兆美元(也就是一万亿美元),咋一看真的是一笔超级巨款,但考虑要做的事情的话就不会觉得它很多了
And it is not just governments that have this kind of money. Two of the world's biggest companies, Microsoft and Amazon, are each worth more than $1tn; Apple stock is valued at $2tn. The world's richest 1% together own a staggering $162tn. That's 45% of all global wealth. At the start of 2020, private equity firms held $1.45tn in what they call "dry powder", and what the rest of us call "cash": piles of money sitting around awaiting investment. Just imagine what you could do with it.
并不是只有政府有这样的资金
Since the coronavirus hit, as after the 2008 crash, money has suddenly been found. Tens of trillions of dollars in economic stimulus packages are being chopped up, partitioned, allocated, siphoned. What if we could spend that cash? If only we could divert some of it, scrape a bit here and there from governments and banks, or quantitatively ease $1tn into existence and spend it before anyone noticed. Imagine the possibilities. Imagine what we could achieve.
自新冠病毒爆发以来,就像2008年金融危机之后一样,钱突然被找到了
词语解释
1.rustle up 凑集到,搞到
She's trying to rustle up some funding for the project.
她正设法尽快为这个项目筹集一些资金
2.smoke and mirrors 欺骗性行为
The world is full of smoke and mirrors.
这世界到处充斥着欺骗,犹如雾里看花
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