The world this week -- Business 本周国际要闻商业 After years of complaints from investors that its sprawling empire of businesses was hindering profits, General Electric decided to split into three, independently run companies. 多年来,投资...
The world this week -- Politics 本周国际要闻政治 As delegates haggled over the final drafts at the UN COP26 climate-change summit in Glasgow, America and China issued a joint declaration to work together to reduce emissions. 在格拉斯哥举行...
Books Arts 文学与艺术 Access to art -- The mixing pot 通往艺术之路融合 A museum opens up its collection 一家博物馆开放了它的藏品 The new home for the collection of the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, a gorgeous 40-metre-tall m...
Business 商业 General Electric -- Not so general 通用电气不那么通用 An iconic conglomerate breaks up 一家标志性的企业集团解体 Perhaps the most remarkable characteristic of General Electric (GE) over its 129-year history has bee...
James Hamilton of the University of California, San Diego, studies historical oil shocks and finds that a 20% rise in the real price of energy is associated with a 15-point drop in an index of consumer confidence. 加州大学圣地亚哥分校的詹姆...
Finance and Economics 财经版块 Free exchange | Tanks for nothing 自由兑换 | 油箱免费 How soaring energy costs could hobble the recovery 飙升的能源成本如何阻碍经济复苏 FUEL PRICES over the past month show the same vertiginou...
The world this week -- Politics 本周国际要闻政治 Sudan suffered its second coup in two years. 苏丹遭遇了两年内的第二次政变。 Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan, a former general and the countrys de facto president, seized control just mont...
The world this week -- Business 本周国际要闻商业 Democrats in the American Senate tried to pin down proposed tax rises that will pay for a $1.5trn spending bill on welfare and the climate, legislation that is much reduced in scope from what i...
Books and Arts 文学与艺术 Books and social media -- Word of mouth 书籍与社交媒体口碑 A new form of literary criticism is boosting sales of books 一种新的文学批评形式正在促进书籍的销售 A young woman holds up a book and...
Business 商业 A makeover at Facebook? -- About-face Facebook的改头换面?彻底改变 A rumoured name-change reflects ambition -- and weakness 传闻中的更名展现了雄心和弱点 Worth nearly $1trn, Facebook is the worlds sixth-most-val...