Finance economics 财经版块 Dont be workshy 不要怕去上班 Whoops, working from home is detrimental to productivity after all. 唉，居家办公总归还是不利于提高工作效率。 A gradual reverse migration is under way, from Zoom to...
金融市场前景: 微笑袋鼠和警惕的豪猪 Finance economics 财经版块 Quokkas v porcupines 微笑袋鼠vs警惕的豪猪 Animal spirits in financial markets are hopelessly divided. 不同金融市场的情绪大相径庭。 The quokka, an...
美国债务问题: 痛苦的宿醉 Finance economics 财经版块 Nasty hangover 痛苦的宿醉 After debt-ceiling negotiations, America faces a debt deluge. 债务上限谈判结束后，美国面临债务泛滥。 Having flirted with madness, Con...
Finance economics 财经版块 Boy cries wolf 狼来了 Generative AI is not yet killing jobs. 生成式人工智能还没有消灭就业岗位。 After astonishing breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, many people worry that they will end up on...
Many governments are also trying to attract more people. 许多政府也在努力吸引更多的人。 Canada has a target to welcome 1.5m new residents in 2023-25. 加拿大的目标是在2023-25年迎来150万新居民。 Germany and India recently...
Finance economics 财经版块 Exodus 大迁徙 An unprecedentedly large wave of mass migration is under way. 一场规模空前的移民潮正在进行中。 Last year 1.2m people moved to Britainalmost certainly the most ever. 去年有120万人移居...
Finance economics 财经版块 Machine earning 机器赚钱 How to invest in artificial intelligence: Private startups or public markets? 如何投资人工智能：私人初创公司还是公开市场？ It has been a torrid 18 months for investors...
This changed when sugar imports from Britains colonies increased. 当从英国殖民地进口的糖增加时，情况发生了变化。 Annual sugar consumption per person rose from around 5Ibs a year in 1700 to 20Ibs by 1800several times higher than...
Finance economics 财经版块 Buzzkill 无法兴奋 What a shortage of Adderall means for economic growth阿德拉药品短缺对经济增长意味着什么 Towards the end of last year America began running short of medicines used to treat attentio...
淄博烧烤热背后的中国经济 Finance economics 财经版块 Kebab consumption 淄博烧烤消费 What a barbecue crazy says about China's economic growth prospects烧烤热潮反映了中国经济增长的何种前景 Over the past few decade...
Finance economics 财经版块 Capital v labour 资本与劳工 Are greedy corporations causing inflation? 贪婪的企业导致了通货膨胀吗？ In the three years before Covid-19, rich-world consumer prices rose by a total of 6%. 在新冠肺炎暴...
To understand why, it is useful to consider a weaker case for such indices: not that they foretell the future but that they can reveal the present. 要理解其中的原因，不妨考虑一下这类指数得以存在的一个较弱的理由：不是因...
Finance economics 财经版块 Trolley problems 购物车问题 Economists and investors should pay less attention to what consumers think. 经济学家和投资者应该少关注消费者的想法。 It is an idea so seemingly obvious as to need lit...
Yet there are also deeper changes at play. 然而，也有更深层次的变化在起作用。 The first relates to covid-19 disruptions. 第一个变化与新冠肺炎带来的干扰有关。 The world lurched from crashing to soaring growth as lock...
世界经济的蒙娜丽莎效应(1) Finance economics 财经版块 The Mona Lisa effect 蒙娜丽莎效应 How to explain the puzzle of the world economy? 如何解释世界经济之谜？ What is mona lisa doing? 蒙娜丽莎在做什么？ At firs...
