经济学人:自由交流:丰厚的回报(1)

Finance and Economics 财经 Free Exchange: Many happy returns 自由交流：丰厚回报 A new data trove helps reshape how the economy is understood. 新的数据宝藏有助于重塑经济体被如何理解。 Data-gathering is the least sexy par

经济学人:自由交流:丰厚的回报(2)

Theirs is the first such data set to gather all of that information for so many countries over so long a period. 他们的成果是收集这么多国家在这么长的时间内的所有这种信息的第一批这样的数据集。 As such, the author

经济学人:合理的怀疑:信用卡账单到了(1)

Finance and Economics 财经 Free exchange: Reasonable doubt 自由交流：合理的怀疑 Richard Thaler wins the Nobel prize for economic sciences 理查德赛勒赢得诺贝尔经济学奖 The credit-card bill arrives. 信用卡账单到了。 Yo

经济学人:欧洲养老金:一脚踏入阿尔加维 (1)

WHEN the financial crisis hammered Portugal's economy, hundreds of thousands of its people left, 当金融危机席卷葡萄牙经济时，数十万葡萄牙人离开了， taking advantage of the European Union's rules on free movement to find work

经济学人:哥伦比亚基础设施 (2)

They appoint three board members between them, matching the government's quota. 他们从中指定3名董事会成员，与政府配额相匹配。 A final three, also chosen by the government, must be from outside politics. For a 4G project to get F

经济学人:货币的半衰期 (1)

In 1946 Gyorgy Faludy, a Hungarian poet, received 300 bn pengo for a new edition of his works. 1946年，匈牙利诗人Gyorgy Faludy收到了作品再版稿费3000亿辨戈。 The sum would have been worth $60bn before the second world war. 二战前这

经济学人:货币的半衰期 (2)

To make the numbers easier to grasp, they have provided an alternative way to express them. 为了让大家更好理解这些数据，他们提供了另一种表述方式。 They calculate how long it would take for prices to double, if inflation per

经济学人:欧洲养老金:一脚踏入阿尔加维 (2)

Finland shredded its tax agreement with Portugal in June. 6月，芬兰撕毁了与葡萄牙的税收协定。 If Portugal does not accept a draft deal letting Finland tax most pensions drawn by its retirees there by November, it will start doing so

经济学人:印度的非银行金融 (2)

Few think that a liquidity crisis is the firm's only problem. Even when its credit was good, its projects had a nasty habit of busting their budgets. 少数人认为清偿危机是公司唯一的问题。即便公司信用良好，其项目也会习惯

经济学人:澳大利亚最大金融机构正在受审 (1)

BANKS often face conflicts of interest when it comes to advising their customers. 当提及为客户提供咨询建议的时候，银行经常面临利益冲突。 The regulators who are supposed to stop the abuses that can result are not always up t

经济学人:印度的非银行金融 (1)

CAN a big financial firm's credit rating fall from AAA one monthgood enough for pension funds and life insurersto junk the next without causing a crash? 一个大型金融公司的信用评级在一个月内从AAA对养老基金和寿险公司而言足

经济学人:库尔德人绝食抗议 民众濒临生死边缘

Turkey and the Kurds 土耳其和库尔德人 Hunger and thirst 饥饿和干渴 A hunger strike causes new tension between Turkey and its Kurds 绝食抗议引发土耳其和库尔德人间新的紧张局势 What happens if they start dying? The ques

经济学人:最低温饱线出炉 看英国人如何定义贫穷

Britain Measuring poverty 英国 衡量贫困 The end of the line 贫困终止 The government sets out to redefine what it means to be poor 政府着手重新定义贫穷 When Seebohm Rowntree, a chocolate-maker and pioneering social researcher, bega

经济学人:拉加德名单问世 瑞士不再是贪官的金融避风港

Greek taxation 希腊税收 Doubts over competence 全面质疑 Not a single prominent tax evader has yet been convicted 至今为止，希腊还未对任何有明显偷税嫌疑者进行惩罚 GreeceS elite used to see stashing funds in Swiss bank a

经济学人:信贷紧缩侵蚀欧洲 银行业查漏补缺更待何时?

Non-bank finance in Europe 欧洲非银行金融机构 Embracing the alternatives 采用新方法 Banks are changing. That means other providers of capital must step forward, especially in Europe 银行有变，资本家须出手，尤其是向欧洲

经济学人:爱尔兰赤字高居欧盟前列 政府6次收缩预算

Europe Irelands budget 欧洲 爱尔兰的财政预算 Light at the end of the tunnel 一线希望 Irelands sixth austerity budget 爱尔兰的第六次收缩预算 Since mid-2008, successive governments have taken 25 billion euro ($33 billion) out o

经济学人:奥朗德推行高昂富人税 富人会因此"出逃"?

Europe French taxation 欧洲 法国税收 A bas les riches! 对富人的严厉打击 Francois Hollande remains intent on introducing a punishing top income-tax 弗朗索瓦奥朗德继续致力推行严厉的富人税 As Socialist candidate for the

经济学人:英国公共财政 "昙花一现"后的悲凉

Britain The public finances 英国 公共财政 Off target 偏离目标 Despite a good month, George Osborne is far from balancing the budget 纵然一月好光景，平衡收支路漫漫 January is always a bumper month for the public purse. Governm

经济学人:屋漏偏逢连天雨 英镑贬值又遇信誉评级下降

Britain Sterling 英国 英镑 Weaker still and weaker 屋漏偏逢连天雨 The downgrade of British sovereign debt by Moodys did not spook the markets. But investors were already worried 穆迪公司下调了英国主权债务评级，没有引起市

经济学人:法国经济正步入正轨?政府陷入两难境界

Europe Frances economy 欧洲 法国经济 Austerity stakes 紧缩困境 A reluctant government faces the imperative of public-spending cuts 法国削减公共支出势在必行，政府陷入两难境界 Franses finance minister, Pierre Moscovici, s