开始看The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets

Financial markets 的定义：markets in which funds are transferred from people who have an excess of available funds to people who have a shortage.

一些词汇：

mutual funds 共同基金

Bond markets 债权市场

stock markets 股票市场

Well-functioning 运转良好的

producing high economic growth 经济高速增长

and poorly performing financial markets are one reason that many countries in the world remain desperately poor. 穷的绝望，就是赤穷吧

the cyclical performance of the economy 经济周期

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（其实只看了一页，前面40页都是封面和目录。）