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With a deadline looming to cut Americas massive federal deficit, lawmakers of both parties appear to be softening rigid ideological stances in hopes of striking a bipartisan accord that would put the United States on a sounder fiscal path. Economists

中国国企模式值得西方借鉴

Economic policymaking in the west has developed in radical ways since the global financial crisis. When Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, the US after some hesitation allowed the Federal Reserve to intervene in the markets. Afterwards, the European

台商希望能从新五年规划中受益

As part of the new 5-year plan, the mainland leadership is promising more is going to be done to allow average people from Taiwan benefit from more cross-straits cooperation. Zhong Shuling with the Association of Small and Medium Enterprises in Taipe

两名经济学家凭借契约理论问鼎诺贝尔奖

Two economists Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom have won the 2016 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Both of them will share 8 million kronor, or about $930,000. 今年的诺贝尔经济学奖最终花落两位经济学家--奥利弗哈特和本

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年度大盘点：2015年最畅销的商业书籍

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世界银行承认发达经济体对全球化不满

An internal briefing document seen by the BBC says the effects of globalisation on advanced economies is often uneven and may have led to rising wage inequality. 据BBC获得的一份内部简报文件称，全球化对发达经济体的影响经常是

Japan's exports up 32.1 % on year in May

TOKYO, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Japan's exports rose in May from a year earlier, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said in a preliminary（初级） report on Thursday. The 32.1 percent increase in the recording month marks the sixth successive（连续的）

世界银行：美国经济增长加快

世界银行：美国经济增长加快 Many economists say U. S. growth will speed up a bit over the next year, which will likely make it easier for other nations to sell their products in the worlds biggest economy. Surging energy production is cut

Renminbi Will Be Among Dominant World Currencies

A new report from The World Bank predicts that China's renminbi will join the U.S dollar and the euro as dominant international currencies sometime in the next 10 to 15 years. Some economists say is a major realignment in the global economic order, w

从未请假的“超级工人”

Beijing Youth Daily Public pool water quality available online The water quality of public swimming pools in Beijing can now be monitored by smartphone in real time. The Beijing municipal health authority has started a project to monitor the water qu

瑞士公投否决基本收入提议

The Swiss have voted decisively against state-provided unconditional basic incomes in a setback for a growing international lobby that argues such radical schemes are needed to overhaul inefficient welfare systems. 瑞士人在全民公投中高票否决

美国经济改善或有助于奥巴马

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人工智能是一种“全新生产要素”

Talk to a bunch of economists and they will doubtless tell you that poor productivity growth is the scourge of our age. 与一些经济学家交谈，他们几乎肯定会告诉你，疲弱的生产率增长是我们这个时代的灾难。 Lounge in

Political Bickering Hurts US Economy

Continued political bickering in the United States is hurting stock and commodity prices and slowing spending by some U.S. holiday shoppers. Oil was selling at below $89 a barrel Monday, as traders worried that an economic downturn could cut demand f

Wall Street drops on 2-year bull anniversary

NEW YORK, March 9 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. stocks dropped on Wednesday, the two-year anniversary of the beginning of a bull market, as concerns(关于) of oil prices and Middle East unrest continued to weigh on investors' minds. U.S. crude oil price dipp

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You really want to get the decision right if it's for all eternity, right? 当你进入极乐世界时，你一定希望你做出的决定是正确的，是吗？ You don't want to pick the wrong mutual fund, or the wrong salad dressing. So that's on

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Leaders: Big economic ideas Breakthroughs and brickbats 社论：重大经济思想突破与板砖 What economists can learn from the discipline's seminal papers 经济学家能够从这一学科的经典论文中所学到的 It is easy enough to cri

经济学人:川普当选总统 国际经济出现的乱象(下)

Yet there are risks to China's economy too, from even a milder form of Trumpian populism. 然而，对于中国经济来说，也存在着来自一种较为温和形式的特朗普式民粹主义的风险。 The dollar's weakness over the spring and

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Economists think prices, like spilt ketchup, are sticky. They move only slowly as firms digest economic conditions. 经济学家认为价格就像溢出的番茄酱一样黏糊糊的。它们只会在公司消化经济状况时缓慢变动。 Financi