The global economy全球经济 Another year of living dangerously又是如履薄冰的一年 Turmoil in the Middle East and disaster in Japan arouse economic angst. Central banks must not make it worse 中东的骚乱和日本的灾难引发经济上的

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Finance and Economics;Inflation around the world;Parsing prices; 财经;全球通胀;价格分析 Rising inflation is not as worrisome as it appears, at least for now. 通胀没有看上去那么可怕,至少现在如此。 Inflation is b

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人财经系列

购买力平价 purchasing power parity China next year will measure its gross domestic product (GDP) using purchasing power parity (PPP), an internationally accepted methodology, Beijing-based financial news portal Caing.com reported recently. 据财经

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 金融英语

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. A listener from Indonesia named Efendy asks why the Federal Reserve is so important and how it works. This week offered a good example. The Federal Reserve System is the United States central bank. I

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How can we make the economy more vibrant? 我们怎样才能使经济更有活力? Inflation leads to more unemployment. 通货膨胀导致更多人失业. Inflation hurts the poor more than the rich. 通货膨胀伤害的是穷人而不是富人. Th

发表于:2019-01-15 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

IMF总裁警告复苏风险 DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde on Saturday said that the recovery of the world economy is a consolidation process and people should be aware of the ris

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Wage negotiations in Argentina 阿根廷的工资谈判 Class war 一场关于开学的战争 Teachers'unions go out on strike 教师公会举行罢工 IT CAN'T be that every annual salary negotiation makes it a strain just to begin the school year,

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People who consume alcohol earn significantly more at their jobs than non-drinkers, according to a US study that highlighted social capital gained from drinking. 美国一项以饮酒积聚社会资本为主题的研究表明,饮酒人士挣的钱要

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(123) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

The European Central Bank (ECB) has raised interest rates to 1.5% from 1.25% in an attempt to cool inflation in the 17-nation eurozone. ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet said that inflation, now 2.7%, was likely to remain clearly above the ECB's 2% t

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(114) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Stocks in both the Europe and the US market soared after the ECB announced a larger-than-expected bond-buying program. But some analysts express worries that the program may help only temporarily. Robert Halver is head of market research Baader Bank

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Finance and economics 财经商业 India in trouble 印度身陷困境 The reckoning 最后审判日 Why India is particularly vulnerable to the turbulence rattling emerging markets 为什么印度新兴市场特别容易受到震荡 ON THE morning o

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宏观经济的 macroeconomic 通货膨胀 inflation 破产 insolvency 有偿还债务能力的 solvent 合同 contract 汇率 exchange rate 紧缩信贷 tighten credit creation 私营部门 private sector 财政管理机构 fiscal authorities 宽松的

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WASHINGTON, May 15 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) went up modestly in April, led by rising energy and food costs, the Labor Department reported Thursday. As a main gauge of inflation, the CPI increased 0.3 percent on a seasonally adjuste

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

BEIJING, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Prices of farm produce in China have inched up for the fifth straight week during the week ending August 19, the Ministry of Commerce said Tuesday. The wholesale cost of 18 types of vegetables monitored across 36 major ci

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The US Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged last Wednesday in its last monetary policy decision before the US election, but signaled it could hike in December as the economy gathers momentum and inflation picks up. 美国联邦储备局上周三

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

India's Reserve Bank has raised interest rates in a continuing struggle to control inflation. The rate hike, which was announced Friday, is the 12th increase in the last year-and-a-half. But there are fears that this could further slow down an econom

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Finance and economics 财经商业 China's economy 中国经济 An alternative view 另一视角 China's official figures both understate and overstate inflation 中国官方数据既低估又高估了通货膨胀 IS CHINA'S economy underheating? 中国

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Inflation has behaved strangely over the past decade. 在过去的十年中,通胀表现得很陌生。 The recession that followed the financial crisis of 2007-08 sent American unemployment soaring to 10%. 2007-08年金融危机之后的衰退曾令

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(107) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人财经系列

That proposition was put to the test after Paul Volcker became Fed chairman in 1979. 这种主张在保罗沃克尔于1979年成为美联储主席后被付诸验证。 Mr Volcker was set on getting inflation down. 当时,沃克尔决心要把通胀降

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Law of Supply Demand: This is the founding block of economics. Whenever supply of something increases its price decreases and whenever supply decreases price increases. Thus, when you have excess production of corn, food prices decrease and vice vers

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