Finance and economics 财经版块 Economies of scales 体重秤经济 The obesity pay gap is worse than previously thought. 肥胖造成的工资差距比之前想象的更为严重。 Obese people experience discrimination in many parts of their li...
Customer service offers more difficult terrain for AI. 客户服务的人工智能应用情况更为棘手。 Firms have been trying to automate it for years. 多年来，公司一直在尝试将客服自动化。 Thus far they have mostly just annoy...
Finance and economics 财经版块 What does AI mean for your pay? 人工智能对你的工资意味着什么？ A dispatch from the front line of an economic revolution. 从经济革命前线发来的消息。 Around a decade ago Carl Benedikt Frey...
Finance and economics 财经版块 Death valley 死亡谷 America's credit unions are exposed to a nasty consequence of higher rates. 美国信用社面临高利率带来的恶劣后果。 The federal reserves interest-rate rises are causing pain in...
Finance and economics 财经版块 Forget the Fed 忘掉美联储 Investors are paying more attention than ever to the worlds safest assets. 投资者比以往更加关注世界上最安全的资产。 Regular and predictable. 有规律的和可预测的...
Firms are noticing the $600bn shift. 各家公司注意到这6000亿美元正在逐渐溜走。 In a recent earnings call an executive at Darden Restaurants, which runs one of Americas finest restaurant chains, Olive Garden, noted that, relative to p...
Finance and economics 财经版块 Apart, together 一起分开生活 The world economy has entered a new era, that of the hermit consumer. 世界经济进入了一个新时代：隐居消费时代。 In some ways covid-19 was a blip. 在某些方面，...
Another organisation on which Gazans depend is Hamas, whose administrative branch runs the strips government. 加沙人依赖的另一个组织是哈马斯，哈马斯的行政部门管理着加沙地带的政府。 Since it took power, Hamas has exp...
Finance and economics 财经版块 War by other means 使用另一种手段的战争 In its fight against Hamas, Israel uses economic weapons as well as military ones. 在打击哈马斯的战斗中，以色列不仅使用军事武器，还使用经济...
Between 1967 and 1979 the share of 20- and 21-year-old women who expected to be employed at 35 jumped from 35% to 80%. 1967至1979年间，20至21岁的女性中，预期35岁就业的女性比例从35%跃升至80%。 Expectations also matter for emp...
Finance and economics 财经版块 Golden Goldin 金牌戈尔丁 A Nobel for an economist who has overturned assumptions about gender equality. 一位颠覆了关于性别平等假设的经济学家获得了诺贝尔奖。 On the morning of October 9...
Finance and economics 财经版块 Cruel world 残酷世界 Investors begin to accept that high borrowing costs are here to stay. 投资者开始接受高借贷成本将持续存在的事实。 According to T.S. Eliot, April is the cruellest month. T...
Finance and economics 财经版块 Tuition drag 学费的拖累 The resumption of student-loan payments will hit American growth. 恢复偿还学生贷款将打击美国的经济增长。 People are mostly pleased by the return of normal life after c...
Finance and economics 财经版块 Size matters 规模大小很重要 The most important investment decision is not what but how much. 最重要的投资决定不是买什么，而是买多少。 If you ever hear a professional investor talk about a...
Finance and economics 财经版块 All that sparkles 钻石钻石亮晶晶 Diomands are forever; their allure to investors might not be. 钻石恒久远，但其投资价值可能并非如此。 The appeal of a diamond, for a ring on a finger or to s...
