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第五课课文译文 跌势中的美元，你还有信心吗？ 胡智林 译 解晶 校 Losing faith in the greenback 对美元失去信心 How long will the dollar remain the world’s 美元作为世界货币还能维持多久？ premier currency? THE long-run value of all paper currencies is zero. 所有纸币的最终价值是零。这是比尔·波纳爱 That is a fond saying of Bill Bonner, goldbug and 说的一句话，他主张金本位，是一份专唱反调的财 publisher of the Daily Reckoning, a contrarian financial 经类通信杂志《每日结算》的出版商。所以，美元 newsletter. So why should the dollar be any different? 为什么应该与众不同呢？伊朗总统马哈茂德·艾哈 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s president, seems to 迈迪－内贾德似乎认为这里所说的“最终”就是指 think the long run is now: two weeks ago he decried the “现在”：两周前，他公开诋毁美元是“毫无价值的 dollar as a worthless piece of paper. And Jim Rogers, 一张废纸”。以精明著称的投资家吉姆·罗杰斯也发 a famously shrewd investor, asks why anyone would 出疑问：人们为什么要购买美元? buy dollars. America’s currency has been infected by the sense 美国货币已经受到困扰其经济和金融市场的危 of crisis that bedevils its economy and financial 机感的影响。摩根士丹利的斯蒂芬·简（中文名： markets. Speculative selling of the dollar is close to an 任永力）认为，投机抛售美元几乎达到历史新高。 all-time high, reckons Stephen Jen at Morgan Stanley. 许多人相信（有些人明显是希望）美元作为国际货 Many believe －and some evidently hope －that the 币或许已是昔日黄花（或译：会逐步退出历史舞台）。 greenback might be on its way out as an international 人们看到美元近期的下跌和半个世纪前英镑作为储 currency. Worrying parallels are seen between the 备货币的衰落两者之间令人担忧的相似之处。 dollar’s recent fall and the decline of sterling as a reserve currency half a century ago. The dollar’s value against the basket of leading 美元对美联储紧钉的一篮子主要货币的价值近 currencies tracked by America’s Federal Reserve has 来已经达到历史新低，和更多的货币比价，过去五 recently been at an all-time low. Against a broader 年中美元已经贬值四分之一，它对欧元的贬值尤为 range of currencies, the dollar has lost a quarter of its 明显。2002 年某个时间段，一欧元兑换 86 美分；如 value in the past