美国新房销售量5月份同比增长2.1％

WASHINGTON, June 25 (Xinhua) -- The sales volume of new single-family houses in the United States rose in May to the highest level in about five years, evidence of the recovering property market, the U.S. Commerce Department reported Tuesday. Sales o

一周工作20小时可推动经济增长？

Working less hours each week will help boost the economy by creating more jobs and improving quality of life, according to a think tank。 The New Economics Foundation (NEF) will meet with other experts at an event in London this week to find a solut

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今天我们要学的词是bumpy。 Bumpy颠簸的，困难重重的。美国全国企业经济学家协会的一项最新调查发现，More than 90 percent of economists predict the recession will end this year, although the recovery is likely to b

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SHANGHAI Zheng Ruizhen counted herself among the last holdouts on Lufeng Road. 上海郑瑞珍（音）认为自己是陆丰路上最后的钉子户之一。 Even as high-rises sprang up in recent years to surround her dilapidated home, Ms. Zheng, a

沪指暴跌5.5%创最大跌幅 中信证券接受调查

Late on Thursday, it was announced that China's securities regulator was investigating the country's largest brokerage, Citic Securities. The firm is being probed over the possible breaking of market rules. 周四，有消息称中国证监会正在调

Japan Quake Weighs on Financial Markets

Mil Arcega March 11, 2011 - The worst quake to strike Japan in 140 years sent shock waves through financial(金融) markets around the world. The 8.9 magnitude earthquake（地震） struck toward the end of the Asian trading session, sending Japan's

欧洲经济复苏 但仍存挑战

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Rural Consumption Boosts Indian Economy

New Delhi -- As growing wealth fuels spending in thousands of villages across India, rural communities are emerging as new commercial frontiers, raising hopes that the nation's vast countryside will become an engine of future economic growth. For Aru

三位美国经济学家荣获2013年诺贝尔经济学奖

三位美国经济学家因为对资产价格随着时间如何改变的研究而荣获2013年的诺贝尔经济学奖。 瑞典皇家科学院星期一发表声明说， 美国经济学家尤金.法马、拉尔斯.彼得.汉森以及罗伯特.席勒因

Inflation Squeezes Vietnamese Workers

Vietnam recently devalued its currency, the dong, by 9.3 percent against the dollar. Analysts say soaring inflation here makes life harder for many Vietnamese workers. Consumer prices in Vietnam this January were more than 12 percent higher than they

AP 2011-10-14

1. A pregnant mother whom Milwaukee police say was kidnapped and had her full-term baby forcibly removed from her body did not know the women accused of attacking her. That's according to a relative. Maritza Ramirez-Cruz and her baby were both killed

《纽约时报》详解：希腊经济危机始末

How did Greece get to this point? 希腊如何落到今天这般田地？ Greece became the epicenter of Europes debt crisis after Wall Street imploded in 2008. With global financial markets still reeling, Greece announced in October 2009 that it had

TED演讲：你存钱的能力跟你用的语言有关?(7)

What are the characteristics we can control for? 我们能够控制那些特征？ Well I'm going to match families on country of birth and residence, 我考虑的匹配包括出生地和居住地， the demographics -- what sex, their age -- their i

TED演讲:被遗忘的美国工人阶级(5)

So I didn't have access to that information because the social networks around me didn't have access to that information. 我之前不了解这方面的信息，是因为我周围的圈子都不知道这些信息。 I learned from my community how to

UN Grim on World Economic Prospects for 2012

United Nations economists have sharply cut their projections for world growth and warned that 2012 will be key to whether the global economy makes a slow recovery or falls back into recession. In their report, World Economic Situation and Prospects 2

经济学人:战后经济秩序的核心:凯恩斯主义经济学

Keynes advised the government during the first world war and participated in the Versailles peace conference, which ended up extracting punitive reparations from Germany. 第一次世界大战期间，凯恩斯曾在出任政府顾问，参与过最终

经济学人:慷慨经济学 邻居的善意

Finance and economics: The economics of generosity The kindness of neighbours 财经：慷慨经济学 邻居的善意 A new paper asks why some Tanzanian farmers are more selfish than others. 一份新的报纸说为何一些坦桑尼亚农民比其他

经济学人:六大经济思想之五:纳什均衡(下)

As he struggled with ill health, however, his equilibrium became more and more central to the discipline. 然而，就在他与病痛搏斗时，他的均衡之于这门学科变得越来越核心了。 The share of economics papers citing the Nash e

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: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