来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：金融理论 第2集 第2集》

• 
  
  There's one guy everybody has to come to,
  每个人都要去找他
• 
  
  and so he's responsible for clearing the markets.
  他要负责市场出清
• 
  
  So I might, in fact, mention a little bit of the history of this sort of thing.
  因此事实上我会提及证券的一些历史
• 
  
  I don't know if I can hit escape.
  我换一组幻灯片
• 
  
  It might be somewhat interesting.
  这可能有点意思
• 
  
  So the first people who had these well-developed markets and money were the Lydians.
  首先拥有完善市场和资金的是吕底亚人
• 
  
  They invented money in 640 B.C.
  公元前六百四十年他们发明了货币
• 
  
  and they had gold coins,
  他们使用金币
• 
  
  and with all this money and trading
  用这些钱和贸易
• 
  
  they got very quickly to gambling and prostitution for money.
  他们很快就通过赌博和卖淫来挣钱
• 
  
  And Midas, the Midas touch was everything turned to gold was Lydian.
  点物成金的麦得斯国王就是吕底亚人
• 
  
  They've discovered all these mints where their capital was
  他们在自己的首都发明了铸币