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2019年经济学人 货币市场和美联储(2)
Fortunately, the Fed's interventions seemed to work. The repo rate returned to its usual level, close to the federal funds rate, 幸运的是，美联储的干预似乎起到了作用。回购利率回到了正常水平，接近联邦基金利率，
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2019年经济学人 约翰逊语言专栏--哪种语言最好?(2)
The many different things a language can and must do are the subject of Are Some Languages Better than Others?, a book from 2016 by R.M.W. Dixon of James Cook University in Australia. Mr Dixon dispels old colonialist prejudices that European language
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2019年经济学人 气候问题(2)
In fact, to conclude that climate change should mean shackling capitalism would be wrong-headed and damaging. There is an immense value in the vigour, innovation and adaptability that free markets bring to the economies that took shape over that stri
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2019年经济学人 一周要闻 美联储干预货币市场 美联储下调基准利率 沙特将恢复
The world this week 本周要闻 Business 商业 Saudi Arabia sought to assure markets that oil production levels would return to normal within weeks following the attack on two oil facilities, which cut around 5.7m barrels of oil a day from output.
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2019年经济学人 货币市场和美联储(3)
The surplus reserves banks hold in their deposit accounts at the Fed fell from $2.2trn in 2017 to $1.4trn now. 银行在美联储的存款账户中持有的盈余准备金从2017年的2.2万亿美元降至现在的1.4万亿美元。 No one knows how
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2019年经济学人 一周要闻 上海开展自动驾驶载客测试 通用汽车工人罢工 WeWork推
WeWork postponed its ipo amid tepid interest from investors and a drop in its expected stockmarket value. The office-rental firm has never made a profit and was trying to go public amid market doubts about the prospects for other loss-making startups
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2019年经济学人 约翰逊语言专栏--哪种语言最好?(3)
In short, languages are governed by trade-offs. One that avoids making certain information mandatory may be easy to speak, but leaves the listener to fill in the gaps. It may be simple to learn but less expressive. Some languages have lots of redunda
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2019年经济学人 哭泣的白手帕(2)
But this degradation was new. She and her companions, all virgins, so innocent, had been plucked from their camp to service queues of impatient army officers. To aid selection in the brothel, the names of flowers were pinned to their bedroom doors. S
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2019年经济学人 气候问题(3)
The scale of the implications underlines another thing that climate change is not. It is not just an environmental problem alongside all the othersand absolutely not one that can be solved by hair-shirt self-abnegation. Change by the people who are m
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2019年经济学人 古气候学—先知水域
古气候学先知水域 Throughout history, people have viewed springs as mystical. 纵观历史，人们都认为泉水是神秘的。 From the warm pools of Roman Bath, whence sheets of lead inscribed with prayers have been recovered, 从罗马浴场
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2019年经济学人 气候问题(4)
气候问题(4) It is foolish to think all this can be done in ten years or so, as demanded by many activists and some American presidential hopefuls. But todays efforts, which are too lax to keep the world from two or even three degrees of warming,
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2019年经济学人 波音VS空客(1)
Most museum exhibits are beautifulor at least old. 大多数博物馆的展品都很美，或者至少很古老。 But an exhibition in 2015 at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) included 60 cardboard boxes of documents. 但2015年世界贸易组织（
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2019年经济学人 哭泣的白手帕(3)
哭泣的白手帕(3) Yet she also feared the light. It was too hard to reveal this. She buried it deep in shame, and so did those closest to her. When she was reunited with her mother in the labour camp, lying tearful with relief in the hollow of he
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2019年经济学人 一周要闻 中国70周年阅兵看点 特朗普遭弹劾 朝鲜同意恢复裁军
The world this week 本周要闻 Politics 政治 China staged a huge parade to celebrate 70 years of Communist rule. It involved more than 100,000 civilians, 15,000 troops and hundreds of weapons. Some of the equipment had not been shown in public be
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2019年经济学人 波音VS空客(2)
In a sector like aircraft manufacturing, where subsidies are ubiquitous, 在一个像飞机制造这样的部门中，补贴无处不在， it has always been clear that America and the EU needed to agree to mutual disarmament. 很明显，美国和欧
