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oing through college in Texas; the first question you'd be asked is ";Who's the president of Bolivia this week?"; Second question down the road was ";You're from Bolivia …… what's the inflation rate in Bolivia this week?;"; because we had galloping hyperinflation that destroyed our economic base。
###總統喬治。昆拉伽(Jorge Quiroga):當我在德克薩斯上大學時,人們見到我問的第一個問題通常是“這周的###總統是誰啊?”,接下來的第二個問題便是:“你從###來?###這周的通貨膨脹率是多少啊?”因為我們承受著惡性的通貨膨脹,它摧毀了我們的整個經濟基礎。
GONZALO ";GONI"; SANCHEZ DE LOZADA; President; Bolivia; 1993…1997: We found that Bolivia was the seventh highest inflation in the history of man。
###總統(1993…1997)孔塞洛。桑切斯。洛塞塔(Gonzalo ";Goni"; Sanchez De Lozada):我們發現###的通貨膨脹率是人類歷史上第七高的通貨膨脹率。
JUAN CARIAGA; Finance Minister; Bolivia; 1986…1988: Twenty…three thousand; five hundred percent。 Prices increased by the hour。
###財政部長(1986…1988)胡安。卡里加(Juan Cariaga):通貨膨脹率是23500%價格每小時都在上漲。
NARRATOR: The cost of food and clothes kept increasing。 Before it was all over; the total inflation averaged 1 percent every 10 minutes。
旁白:食品和服裝的成本持續上漲。在這場惡性通貨膨脹結束之前,總通脹率平均起來是每10分鐘上漲1%。
JORGE QUIROGA: Seven out of 10 Bolivians live in poverty。 The poor people get hurt even more。 They see their pockets being eaten away by inflation that is galloping around。
喬治。昆拉伽(Jorge Quiroga):70%的###人生活在貧困之中,窮人經受的痛苦更大,他們眼看著自己的口袋被肆虐的通貨膨脹所榨乾。
GONZALO SANCHEZ DE LOZADA: It's like a tiger; hyperinflation: If you don't kill it and you only have one bullet; it'll eat you。
孔塞洛。桑切斯。洛塞塔(Gonzalo Sanchez De Lozada):惡性通貨膨脹就像是一隻老虎,你僅有一顆子彈,如果你射不死它的話,它便會吃了你。
NARRATOR: The root of the problem was government finances。 The government was spending 30 times more than it received in taxes。
旁白:問題的癥結在於政府的財政赤字,政府的開支是其稅收收入的30倍之多。
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