Prices, according to economists, are determined by supply and demand, acting like the twin blades of a pair of scissors. 经济学家认为，价格是由供需决定的，就像剪刀的双刃一样。 But that is not the whole story. In many times...
Still more threatening is Irans nuclear programme. Mr Trump pulled America out of the agreement with Iran, signed in 2015 with six world powers, which limited its ability to get a bomb. He argued that he would be able to negotiate a better deal which...
And yet Irans thirst for revenge is surely not slaked. Even if they avoid overt forms of aggression, the Revolutionary Guards are likely to pursue other tactics, including cyber-attacks, suicide- bombings by proxies, assassinations of American offici...
Leaders 来源于《社论》版块 Masterstroke or madness? 妙举还是愚蠢的行为？ Donald Trump wants to curb Irans aggression. The question is whether he has gone about it the right way 唐纳德特朗普想要遏制伊朗的侵略。问题是...
In his time as a Treasury official in the 1960s he had laboured to maintain the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944, which had built an international monetary system round pegging the dollar to gold at $35 an ounce. When this began to founder he went alo...
Both groups hope to get around these complications, but in different ways. 两组人都希望避免这些问题，但使用的方式不同。 The researchers at Berkeley, led by Omar Yaghi, announced their results last year. Omar Yaghi领导的伯克利...
If you live in a desert, maintaining a supply of fresh water is a challenge. 如果你生活在沙漠中，保持淡水的供应是个挑战。 One answer is desalination, but that needs a source of brine from which to remove the salt 一个答案是海...
Babbel, which makes a popular language- learning app, has collected a host of climate-related neologisms from European languages. Flygskam is perhaps the most likely to be permanently adopted into English: flight-shame, from Swedish, was popularised...
Books amp; arts 来源于《图书和艺术》版块 Johnson 约翰逊语言专栏 Climate-speak 关于气候的表达 Of train-boasts, plane-shame and electric automobiles 火车、飞机和电动汽车 Identifying shifts in the Earths climate requi...
7. Keep meetings short. Ideally, a meeting should be the length of a sitcom episode not a film by Martin Scorsese. Bartlebys law is that 80% of the time of 80% of the people at meetings is wasted. If you doubt the numbers, have a think about the last...
4. Make your priorities for the next year clear, and communicate them well. Is the company (or division) trying to launch a new product? Or to boost sales of existing products? Or to control costs? If you are not sure, then those who work for you wil...
Business 来源于《商业》版块 Bartleby 巴托比职场专栏 A managers manifesto 一位经理的宣言 Eight resolutions to adopt in 2020 2020年适用的八项计划 The start of the year is traditionally the time to make resolutions to chan...
He was happy, even at the Fed, to wear crumpled suits, live in a students' apartment block and fly coach back to New York and the family at weekends. (His salary had fallen by half when he went from the New York Fed to Washington, and even when he re...
Intriguingly, after the new deal was announced it refrained from mentioning any numerical targets. 有趣的是，新协议宣布后，其也没有提及任何数字目标。 Whether that is because it is embarrassed about having been forced into suc...
He was struck by Friedrich Hayek's observation that the only way inflation cured unemployment was by disguising cuts in real wages. This linked inflation and deception indelibly in his head. Price instability destroyed trust, not only in the dollar b...
