From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Helicopters are flying in aid to Haiti where millions of people lost their homes in Tuesday's earthquake. The White House says the airport in the capital Port-au-Prince has been secured. But because the

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台1月

Finance and Economics 财经 Economic Development: Shrink wrap 经济发展:收缩包装 Why the history of economic growth should be all about recessions? 为什么经济增长的历史应该都是与经济衰退相关? Throughout history, pover

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人财经系列

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. BP is coming under mounting pressure to step up its response to the country's worst ever oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico. It's coming down from top Obama administration officials who've been dispatched

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Economists have always been fond of Uber. Its willingness to battle incumbents, use of technology to match buyers and sellers, 经济学家一直都钟爱优步。优步乐意与在位者竞争、利用科技将买家和卖家进行匹配, and embr

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Europes fightback against populism was going well for a couple of hours. 欧洲对民粹主义的反击取得了几个小时的胜利。 On Sunday afternoon, it emerged that the far-right candidate had lost the Austrian presidential election. 上周日

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Finance and Economics; Free exchange; Body of evidence; 财经;自由交流专栏;关于金融危机的大量证据; Is a concentration of wealth at the top to blame for financial crises? 金融危机是否应归咎于财富向上层的集中?

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Finance and Economics;Free exchange;Zero-sum debate; 财经;自由兑换; 零和争论; Economists are rethinking the view that capital should not be taxed; 经济学家正重新考虑是否要推翻不该对资本征税的观点。 Executives th

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UK managers are getting pay bonuses despite being underperformers, a new report suggests. 一份新的报告指出,在英国,管理者们即使业绩不佳,也依然能拿到奖金。 The research into the pay of 70,000 managers concluded that

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Finance and economics 商业报道 Tax breaks 税收优惠 Bribing the taxpayer 讨好纳税人 Wasteful tax perks are sadly common 遗憾的是,税收优惠经常被浪费 2_副本.jpgANY talk of tax reform in America quickly turns to tax expendit

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小企业主创造就业机会有限 STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Often when politicians talk about job creation, they talk about small businesses. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Small businesses produce most of the new jobs in thi

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

BEIJING, Mar. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Urbanization will be a major feature of China's economic growth and continue to gain momentum, Liu He, Party chief of the Development Research Center of the State Council, said on Saturday. At the China Development For

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Do Americans really go through careers like they do cars or refrigerators? As workers take in the latest round of monthly unemployment data over Labor Day weekend, Americans are focused on volatility in the job market. Much of what they hear points t

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Economics brief: Fiscal multipliers 经济概要:财政乘数 Where does the buck stop? 责任到哪里为止? Fiscal stimulus, an idea championed by John Maynard Keynes, has gone in and out of fashion. 由凯恩斯首倡的财政刺激思想经历

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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

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Janet Yellen will deliver the biggest shock to markets since taking over as chair of the Federal Reserve should the central bank raise interest rates this month, according to a survey of Wall Street economists that shows more than 85 per cent expect

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Rapid wage gains in China that began after the 2009 global financial crisis have begun to fade as the economy slows, and that could create problems for officials trying to boost domestic consumption. 中国的涨薪潮开始于2009年全球性金融危

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Germany's government 德国政府 Easy politics, bad policies 简单的政治,糟糕的政策 By indulging her Social Democratic coalition partners, Angela Merkel risks turning Germany in the wrong direction 安格拉默克尔对其社会民主党盟

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Young and workless 年轻人与失业 Youth employment 年轻人就业 Recent figures confirmed that government labour-market policies, such as the age discrimination act of 2006 and the equality act of 2010, have enabled older workers to stay in the

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The number of unemployed U.S. workers seeking new jobless benefits fell to a four-year low last week, as the labor market strengthens in the world's largest economy. The government's Labor Department said that 357,000 workers made first-time claims f

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ON FEBRUARY 25th Rick Santorum, the second-ranking Republican presidential hopeful, called President Barack Obama a snob for advising everyone to get themselves a college education. America, apparently, is a nation of snobs. In a recent poll 94% of p

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