legal monopoly

基本解釋

Legal monopoly means the monopoly that is permitted by the law, it consists of exception and exemption.
合法壟斷即法律所許可的壟斷，它包括適用除外與豁免兩種情形。
Federal Reserve Notes, the legal monopoly of cash or "standard, " money, now serves as the base of two inverted pyramids determining the supply of money in the country.
現(xiàn)在聯(lián)邦儲備券作為法定的壟斷貨幣或“標(biāo)準(zhǔn)”貨幣，成為了支撐兩個倒金字塔貨幣體系結(jié)構(gòu)的基石，這個結(jié)構(gòu)決定了國內(nèi)的貨幣供應(yīng)量。
Unlike the days of the gold standard, it is impossible for the Federal Reserve to go bankrupt; it holds the legal monopoly of counterfeiting (of creating money out of thin air) in the entire country.
不像在金本位時代的日子里，現(xiàn)在的聯(lián)邦儲備銀行已經(jīng)沒有任何破產(chǎn)可能了；整個國家里只有它擁有合法偽造貨幣的權(quán)力（憑空造錢）。

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The rest of this, however, is a series of strategies to preserve extraordinary margins after the legal monopoly is gone.
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