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2021年经济学人 美国多位富豪花式避税记录遭曝光
El Salvador became the first country to accept bitcoin as legal tender, meaning that businesses will be compelled to accept it as payment along with the American dollar, the official currency. The government hopes the cryptocurrency will appeal to th
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2021年经济学人 日本"妻随夫姓"符合宪法不可违背
The world this week 本周国际要闻 Politics 政治版块 Ebrahim Raisi, a conservative cleric and former chief of the judiciary, won Irans presidential election with 62% of the vote. His main rivals had all been barred from running. Turnout was l
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2021年经济学人 俄罗斯就英舰艇侵犯海域提出强烈抗议
Republicans in the American Senate deployed a filibuster to obstruct a wide-ranging bill that seeks to shore up voting rights, known as the For the People Act. The Democrats may now turn to a compromise bill put forward by Joe Manchin, a Democratic s
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2021年经济学人 绿色投资繁荣下的世界隐忧(1)
Leaders 社论 Bunged up 遇到瓶颈 A great green investment boom is under way. Bottlenecks are an underappreciated problem 一场巨大的绿色投资热潮正在兴起，但瓶颈问题却未受到重视。 AS THE WORLD economy wakes back up, sho
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2021年经济学人 绿色投资繁荣下的世界隐忧(2)
This sudden shift in how resources are allocated is causing stresses and strains as demand surges for raw materials and a scramble occurs for the few projects with regulatory approval. We calculate that the price of a basket of five minerals used in
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2021年经济学人 绿色投资繁荣下的世界隐忧(3)
The figures for the coming decade are mind-concentrating. To stay on track for net zero, by 2030 annual production of electric vehicles needs to be ten times higher than it was last year and the number of roadside charging stations 31 times bigger. T
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2021年经济学人 绿色投资繁荣下的世界隐忧(4)
Governments need to be more hardheaded. There is a crucial role for an activist state in supporting the construction of key infrastructure, such as transmission lines, and in research and development. But the overwhelming priority must be to catalyse
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2021年经济学人 基因一小步,世界一大步(1)
Middle East Africa 中东非洲板块 Science 科学 The African genome project 非洲基因组计划 A Cameroonian professor plans to fill a gaping hole in humanitys understanding of its own genetics 一位喀麦隆教授计划填补人类对自身基
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2021年经济学人 基因一小步,世界一大步(2)
The evolutionary line leading to Homo sapiens diverged 5m-6m years ago from that leading to chimpanzees, and for almost all that time the ancestors of modern humans lived in Africa. 在500万至600万年前，智人的进化路线与黑猩猩的进化路
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2021年经济学人 基因一小步,世界一大步(3)
Bias also means that little is known about how variations elsewhere in the genome modify conditions. With sickle-cell disease, red blood cells look like bananas rather than, as is normal, round cushions. About 75% of the 300,000 babies born every yea
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2021年经济学人 基因一小步,世界一大步(4)
Dr Wonkams vision for 3MAG, as outlined in Nature, a scientific journal, is for 300,000 African genomes to be sequenced per year over a decade. That is the minimum needed to capture the continents diversity. He notes that the UK biobank is sequencing
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2021年经济学人 通胀“恶魔降临”,美国企业发出警报(1)
Business 商业版块 Inflation in America Inc 美国企业的通胀 Businesses contend with a long-forgotten problem 企业面临着一个被遗忘已久的问题 Property insurers price policies today but face payouts a year from now. That makes th
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2021年经济学人 通胀“恶魔降临”,美国企业发出警报(2)
Their coyness notwithstanding, many of Mr Adamczyks and Mr Berkleys fellow bosses are bracing for a period of higher costs. Some inputs remain scarce while clogged supply chains are being reconfigured for a reopening economy. At the same time, demand
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2021年经济学人 通胀“恶魔降临”,美国企业发出警报(3)
Pent-up demand allows companies to get away with even large price rises. Consumer prices may have risen even faster in May than in April, according to forecasts. As a result, returns, which held up in the first quarter, are expected to do so again in
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2021年经济学人 通胀“恶魔降临”,美国企业发出警报(4)
Despite a willingness to pay workers more, many firms are having trouble filling vacancies. Nearly half of American companies complain that they are finding it difficult to fill one or more jobs. It is hard to tell how much it costs to hire someone b
