On November 2nd the Chinese central bank and banking regulator published new draft rules for online micro-lending, which looked almost perfectly tailored to undercut Ant. Online lenders will need to fund at least 30% of any loan they supply jointly w...
Regulators v Ant Group 监管者 V 蚂蚁集团 Ant agonises 热锅上的蚂蚁 The world's biggest IPO is now the world's biggest suspended IPO 世界上最大的IPO现在是世界上最大的暂缓IPO Jack Ma was in a triumphant mood shortly after...
The flurry of attacks recalls the bloodshed of 2015 to 16, when Islamist terrorists killed 12 people at Charlie Hebdos offices in January 2015, 131 people at multiple sites in Paris in November and 86 people in Nice the following July. Since then, ho...
Europe 欧洲板块 Terrorism in Europe 欧洲恐怖主义 Oh Vienna 噢,维也纳 Despite the horrors in Austria and France, jihadism has declined 尽管奥地利和法国的恐怖主义事件频发,但圣战主义已然走向陨落。 Teeming w...
Policy seems to play a powerful role in explaining the collapse in full-time employment in the east. Despite some recent changes, the policies of unified Germany, like those of the FRG, still assume that women are wives and mothers first. Joint taxat...
Employment in Germany 德国就业 Nature v nurture 先天V后天 Why east and west German women still work vastly different hours? 妇女的工作时长在东德和西德差距为何如此之大? Scholars are often greatly excited by natural exper...
A committee in Americas House of Representatives accused Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google of exploiting their monopoly power, comparing them to oil and railway tycoons in the 19th century, and recommended sweeping reforms to antitrust laws. That co...
The problem runs deep. A host of negative words and expressions in English contain the modifier black; they are old, and are probably related to a primeval fear of darkness. Nonetheless the constant equation of black with danger or evil can weary bla...
The world this week 本周国际要闻 Business 经济 The IMF urged governments in rich countries to step up spending on investment, pointing out that, even before COVID-19, public-investment-to-GDP ratios were declining. The rates of return from sp...
In all, 25 of the decoys were poached. They told different stories. Some travelled just a few kilometres, with one ending up at a bar 2km away from the nest it was taken from, where its signal abruptly ended. Others went quite a distance. One, for ex...