Puzzlingly low core inflation is not solely a European problem. America has seen it too. 令人困惑的是,低迷的核心通货膨胀问题不仅仅存在于欧洲。美国也一样。 Indeed, the Federal Reserve's experience of tightening policy

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Central banking can be agonising. The effect of monetary policy on the economy is not immediate, 中央银行可能很痛苦。货币政策对经济的影响并非即刻见效, so decisions must be based on expectations for two years' time. That me

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But in NAFTA that process has been broken for years. After Mexico launched a dispute against America over sugar in 2000, 但在是NAFTA中,这一程序多年来就已遭破坏。2000年自墨西哥针对食糖对美国发起争端后 America refuse

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For years President Donald Trump has been itching to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 几年来,唐纳德特朗普总统一直想要退出北美自由贸易协定(NAFTA), a trade deal between America, Canada and

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A striking example is a policy offered by Old Mutual International (OMI), a subsidiary of London-listed Quilter, 一个显著的例子是伦敦上市公司Quilter的子公司先机国际(OMI)提供的一种保险: which pays out a lump sum of m

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Finance and economics: Venezuelan government debt: Running out of time 财经:委内瑞拉国债:时间所剩无几 A devastating spiral continues. 一场持续性灾难。 To most investors, Venezuela looks less like a market than a mess. 对于大

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Finance and economics: Property taxes: Home bias 财经:房产税:本土偏好 A taxing problem for foreign buyers. 外籍买家的房产税难题。 Even in hot markets like Vancouver, property sales normally slow in the summer. 即使温哥华的

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Economics Brief 经济学简介 Six Big Ideas 六大经济理论 Human capital: The people's champion 人力资本:人的捍卫者 Gary Becker made humans the central focus of economics. The second in our series on big economic ideas. 贝克尔让人

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The European Commission obliged the Royal Bank of Scotland to sell Worldpay in 2010, as a condition of RBS's bail-out by the British state after the financial crisis. 欧盟委员会(European Commission)要求苏格兰皇家银行(Royal Bank of Scotl

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Europe Greek taxation 欧洲 希腊税收 A national sport no more 逃漏税再也不是全民运动 Greek tax dodgers are being outed 希腊严惩逃漏税者 Greek officials used to shrug off tax evasion as a national sport. The finance ministry fo

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The living wage 最低生活工资 Wage flaws 工资缺陷 Sense and nonsense about minimum wages 最低工资的意义何在 What unites Ed Miliband, the Labour leader; Boris Johnson, Londons Tory mayor; and Barclays Bank? All are keen on the living

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Europe Greece and the euro 欧洲 希腊与欧元 Toil and trouble 受苦受难 The government gets its latest austerity measures through, but only just 希腊新一轮紧缩政策终以微弱优势通过 Greeces fragile coalition government only nar

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The time-bomb at the heart of Europe 欧洲中心的定时炸弹 Why France could become the biggest danger to Europes single currency 为什么法国会成为欧洲单一货币体系的最大危机 The threat of the euros collapse has abated for the

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German politics 德国政治 When all parties lead to Angela 当所有政党都倾向安吉拉的时候 Confusion reigns in Germanys party politics. That may not affect who wins next years election 德国政坛仍疑云重重,但丝毫不影响明年

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Britain Politicians' salaries 英国 议员们的薪酬 Bargain basement 地下廉价部 The 2009 MPs' expenses scandal cast a long shadow over British politics. It also led to the creation of an Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) t

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Italian politics 意大利政治 Who will be Italys next prime minister? 谁将成为意大利下一任总理? As Silvio Berlusconi seems to be standing aside, the spotlight is on Mario Monti and the candidates of the Left 由于西尔维奥贝鲁斯

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Greece and Germany 希腊与德国 Angela's Athens 安吉拉在希腊 Greeks bearing grudges 希腊怨声载道 AS a stiff Aegean breeze fluttered the hair and lapels of Angela Merkels pale-green jacket, one Greek reporter thought the outfit looked f

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Britain Scotland's independence referendum 英国 苏格兰独立公投 Och aye the No 还是投反对票吧 Scotland ponders whether independence and separation are the same thing 苏格兰思考独立和分离是不是一回事 Should Scotland be a

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Austerity in Portugal 葡萄牙的紧缩政策 More pain, less gain 痛苦更多,收益更少 Yet another austerity budget raises concerns about future growth 但是另一轮预算紧缩引发了对未来发展的担忧 In happier days before the e

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France, Africa and terrorism 法国,非洲和恐怖主义 An African journey 非洲之行 The French government has new African worries in the Sahel 法国政府对萨赫勒地区忧心忡忡 Hollande with rare new friend 奥朗德和其罕见的新朋

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