Back in 2011, I noted that finance and insurance in the United States accounted for 2.8% of GDP in 1950 compared to 8.4% of GDP three years after the worst financial crisis in almost 80 years. “[I]f the US were getting good value from the extra…$750 billion diverted annually from paying people who make directly useful goods and provide directly useful services, it would be obvious in the statistics.”
回到2011年，我注意到美国的金融和保险占GDP的比重在1950年为2.8%，而在近80年来最悲惨的金融危机过去三年后，这一比重为8.4%。“[若]美国为每年支付给直接生产有用商品和直接提供有用服务的人的钱中抠出来的额外的……7500亿美元创造了很好的价值，那么肯定会突出地显示在统计数字中。”