经济学人311:名义上廉价还是实际上昂贵?

AMERICAN manufacturers complain that China undervalues its exchange rate. But which one? The nominal exchange rate is now 6.67 Yuan to the dollar, having strengthened by almost 2% since September 5th (when Larry Summers, an adviser to President Barac

经济学人312:绿色乱局 Tangled Up in Green Tape

PITY the engineers responsible for keeping Americas coal-fired power plants up to standard. a court halted the adoption of new regulations on that would have affected lots of themjust two days before they were due to go into force. The suspended regu

经济学人293:关塔那摩战俘营迎来十周年纪念日

GEORGE BUSH wanted to close it. So did John McCain. And Barack Obama promised to do so within a year of taking office. But nearly three years since then, and ten years after the first inmates stepped through its barbed-wired gates in January 2002, th

经济学人287:雪佛龙与巴西的石油工业

THE flow of oil from cracks in the seabed off the coast of Rio de Janeiro has long since slowed to a mere trickle. Not so the retribution against Chevron, an American oil company that was drilling in the Frade oilfield on November 7th when a sudden r

经济学人288:再次憧憬未来 Reimagining the Future

THAT city will, in the course of time, become the granary of the world, the emporium of commerce, the seat of manufactures, the focus of great monied operations, predicted DeWitt Clinton, governor of New York in 1824. He was speaking about the effect

经济学人289:美国众议院的茶党成员

SINCE the 2010 mid-term elections, tea party Republicans have enjoyed influence out of proportion to their numbers. They forced Barack Obama and congressional Democrats to accept spending cuts without any tax increases to keep the government from shu

经济学人290:美国掀起限制堕胎的浪潮

JANUARY is a busy month in capitals across America. New laws are implemented; Congress and legislatures reconvene, hoping to pass more. If ones political party is in the minority, this is a terrifying prospect. For opponents of abortion, the outlook

经济学人286:TrueCar来势汹汹

AMERICANS looking for a new car nowadays often use online price-comparison sites such as AutoTrader, Edmunds and eBay to find the best deal. Most such sites charge dealers a small fee for passing on sales leads from shoppers who have submitted their

经济学人291:美国的生产率增长还能持续多久?

EVERYONE complains that corporate America is reluctant to hire additional workers. Far less attention has been paid to the flip side of the jobless recovery: the remarkable improvement in American productivity. How long can this continue? I see no li

经济学人292:又一条落网之鱼 Another one in the net

ONE of the unforgettable experiences to be had in California is to go whale watching in Monterey Bay. Nancy Black, a licensed marine biologist, is one of the scientists who lead these commercial outings, besides doing her own whale research. As Lawre

经济学人294:金色降落伞 Golden Parachutes

RICH rewards for departing bosses are not popular. After Sir Fred Goodwin led Royal Bank of Scotland into a ditch and dumped the bill on British taxpayers, he left with a pension of over ?700,000 ($980,000) a year. The Sun, a tabloid, said he had scr

经济学人295:马里奥•蒙蒂已重铸意大利在欧声誉

BEFORE the European Union summit on January 30th, Italys new prime minister, Mario Monti, will have visited the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and the British prime minister, David Cameron, whom he saw on Jan

经济学人297:美国煤炭遭遇的燃眉之急

A FREIGHT train, its dozen cars loaded with coal covered in a light dusting of snow, snaked through the narrow valley, sometimes following the two-lane highway and sometimes crossing it. The valley was silent and snowy, and though it was two days int

经济学人298:课之以税,还是甘之以饴?

DOES raising taxes on those who are doing well economically stifle growth and slow down the recovery? That depends on how rich people behave when their taxes rise. Do they work less when they are allowed to keep a smaller chunk of their income? Do th

经济学人299:德意志证券交易所和纽约泛欧证券交易所

FOR the chief executives of Deutsche Boerse (DB) and NYSE Euronext, this weeks hobnobbing in Davos was strictly business. A $9.5 billion plan to unite the two exchanges was derailed in early December when European Commission staff revealed they were

经济学人300:纽约州长安德鲁•科莫

FOR four years New York was adrift. When Eliot Spitzer, a crusading lawyer, became governor in 2007, his uncompromising ways caused political gridlock in Albany, the state capital. Just over a year later, he was caught frolicking with a prostitute an

经济学人296:创业国度的未来如何?

THE young must shout if they want to be heard. In a stone hangar in the old port of Jaffa, 30 entrepreneurs have five minutes each to present their start-up companies to a panel of digital luminaries and an audience that includes potential investors.

经济学人241:芝加哥财政预算陷入水深火热之中

Chicagos budget 芝加哥财政预算 Reality bites 陷入水深火热之中 How to slash a deficit without raising taxes 如何大幅削减赤字，又不提高税收 Promises to keep 恪守承诺 AT ABOUT 8.30am on Saturday October 15th, close to t

经济学人243:节能以人为本 Back to basics

Back to basics 节能以人为本 Energy efficiency is not very flashy. That may be a selling point 能源增效并不那么高高在上，也许它还是个卖点。 Hope those are energy-saving bulbs 希望大家都使节能灯泡 WHEN Richard Sanc

经济学人244:摇篮将覆 The Cradle Will Rock

The cradle will rock 摇篮将覆 Lynne Ramsay has crafted an elegant adaptation of a tricky book 琳恩?拉姆塞将一本难处理的书精心改编成了一部优雅的作品 WHAT is more taboo than a woman who is repulsed by her own child? This i