manipulate the levers of fiscal policy from deep in their evil lairs.

暗中操縱財政政策槓桿的邪惡藏身處

They pick economic winners and losers and control the business cycle,

他們挑選經濟勝利組和失敗組並操控景氣循環，

creating recessions and controlling inflation to serve their nefarious purposes.

透過引起經濟蕭條並控制通貨膨脹來達到他們邪惡目的

Adriene: Nah, fiscal policy's a completely legitimate tool used by non-shadowy

Adriene：騙你的啦！財政政策是政府官員用來

government officials to correct the economy.

修正經濟的合法工具

(Overlapping) Adriene: I'm Adriene Hill and I'm the host of Crash Course Economics.

Adriene：我是 Adriene Hill，我是 Crash Course Economics 的主持人

Jacob: I'm Jacob Clifford and I'm the host

Jacob：我是 Jacob Clifford，我是 Crash Course Economics 的主持人

Jacob: Stan!

Jacob：史丹！

Stan: You're co-hosts.

史丹：你們是主持搭擋

Adriene: Oh, co-hosts, awesome! Jacob: Alright, yeah, whoo!

Adriene：喔！主持搭擋，讚喔！Jacob：好喔！耶～

Jacob: I'm Mr. Clifford and I'm a high school economics teacher and YouTuber, and I'm gonna

Jacob：我是 Clifford，我是一名在高中任教的經濟學老師，我同時也是Youtube主播，而我要

focus on teaching you the theories and graphs of economics, you know, the textbook stuff.

來教你經濟理論和經濟圖表，就是你知道的，那些課本上的知識

Adriene: And I'm Adriene Hill. I'm a senior reporter for the public radio show Marketplace,

Adriene：我是 Adriene Hill，我是一名資深商業廣播記者

and I'm gonna focus on showing you the real world applications of economics, you know,

我要讓你知道經濟學在現實世界的應用，你知道的，

the good stuff, the really fun stuff.

那些非常有趣好玩的知識

Jacob: Hey! We're both fun.

Jacob：嘿！我們要教的都很有趣

Adriene: 911, what's your emergency?

Adriene：這裡是 911，請您說明事發狀況？

Jacob: My house is on fire, how much do you charge to put it out?

Jacob：我家著火了，你們過來救災要收多少錢？

Adriene： It'll be $10,000, what's your credit card number?

Adriene：總共1萬元，請問您的信用卡號是？

Jacob: Economics is not the study of money or getting rich, although, understanding economics

Jacob：經濟學不是在研究如何賺錢或致富，雖然了解經濟學

can help with that, and economics is not primarily about men in bow-ties forecasting what will

的確有幫助，而且經濟學並不單指一群穿著西裝預測

happen in a given market or the overall economy.

市場趨勢和總體經濟的狀況

Economics is the study of people and choices.

經濟學是研究人類和選擇的課題

Adriene: We can't promise you that learning economics will make you wealthy,

Adriene：我們不保證了解經濟學將讓你致富，

but we can promise that learning economics will enlighten your mind

但我們可以保證了解經濟學會啟發你的思維，

and make you a more informed decision maker, and that makes us all better off.

讓你成為明智決策者，也讓我們生活更寬裕