Over the past generation — ever since the banking deregulation of the Reagan years — the U. S. economy has been "financialized."
过去一个世代，也就是自雷根时期放宽金融管制以来，美国经济已被「金融化」了。
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The reason, the economists argue, is that commodities have become increasingly ' financialized' by the creation of exchange-traded funds that allow investors to easily trade in and out of them.