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Playing chicken with currencies
Colin Barr 2010-09-30 01:28Why bother with mere trade tensions when you can have an "international currency war"?That's what Guido Mantega, Brazil's finance minister, calls the ...
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Foreclosuregate: playing with systemic fire?
Colin Barr 2010-10-28 11:49Don't underestimate the risk foreclosuregate poses to the financial system.So say Robert Shiller, the Yale professor who was a leading skeptic of the ...
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The weather report: Chicken Little was right
Stanly Bing 2010-02-12 09:19By Stanly BingOut in San Francisco, where I live far too little of the time, it has been raining for about two months on and off. Sometimes it pours b...
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China's economy has bigger problems than its currency
Nin-Hai Tseng 2010-11-10 01:26Is the weak renminbi really the main problem? One analyst thinks China's health care spending and lack of a consumer-driven economy are to blame for U...
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百勝中國遭遇雞肉“圍城”
Shelley DuBois 2013-05-13 06:57中國消費者覺得被百勝（Yum Brands）出賣了,。這個總部位于美國肯塔基州的快餐王國擁有肯德基（KFC）,、必勝客（Pizza Hut）和塔可鐘（Taco Bell）等品牌,。百勝大舉進入中國,，因為透明,、正直的西方餐飲公司形象而備受青睞,。但在2012年底,，中國食品調(diào)查人員發(fā)現(xiàn),，百勝的中國供應(yīng)商往雞飼料...
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投資比特幣需知三件事
Ryan Derousseau 2017-12-04 05:30比特幣的潛在巨大收益一直吸引著部分投資者，同樣巨大的風(fēng)險則讓一部分投資者敬而遠之,。那么大家應(yīng)該把它列入黑色星期五的投資清單嗎,？這種加密貨幣當然會波動。以本月初為例,，比特幣在五天時間里暴跌25%,，原因是人們擔(dān)心旨在加快處理速度的新版比特幣，也就是比特幣現(xiàn)金（Bitcoin Cash）會削弱比特幣作為支...
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Counting Our Chickens
Stanley Bing 2010-04-14 01:12Okay, so I just had a business breakfast yesterday and instead of bacon I had the chicken apple sausage.It was a very boring business breakfast, as th...
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全球競爭力之爭：貨幣戰(zhàn)不是出路
Dinesh Paliwal 2011-09-30 01:32全球經(jīng)濟可能重新陷入衰退,，各國市場持續(xù)劇烈波動,，各國央行在貨幣政策制定方面必須艱難地找準平衡。多國央行都對本國經(jīng)濟注入了龐大的刺激資金,，使主權(quán)債務(wù)余額大幅增加,，可能需要幾十年時間才能消化；有些央行則暗示會削減刺激計劃并提高利率,，使人們更加擔(dān)憂突如其來的通脹可能影響經(jīng)濟復(fù)蘇,。盡管這些央行的行為不盡完美...
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全球競爭力之爭：貨幣戰(zhàn)不是出路
Dinesh Paliwal 2011-09-30 01:32全球經(jīng)濟可能重新陷入衰退，各國市場持續(xù)劇烈波動，各國央行在貨幣政策制定方面必須艱難地找準平衡,。多國央行都對本國經(jīng)濟注入了龐大的刺激資金,，使主權(quán)債務(wù)余額大幅增加，可能需要幾十年時間才能消化,；有些央行則暗示會削減刺激計劃并提高利率,，使人們更加擔(dān)憂突如其來的通脹可能影響經(jīng)濟復(fù)蘇。盡管這些央行的行為不盡完美...
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雞湯治感冒：確有療效還是安慰劑,？
THE CONVERSATION 2023-10-28 03:30圖片來源：GETTY IMAGES雖然不知道這個習(xí)俗是從哪兒傳下來的,，不過給生病的人燉一碗雞湯,，是千百年來世界各國通行的習(xí)俗。不管是哪個的民族文化似乎都對雞湯的療效深信不疑,。雖說美國的雞湯總是跟面條一起出現(xiàn),，但是各種文化似乎都有自己的雞湯烹飪方法。在西方,，雞湯治病的記載最早可以追溯到公元60年一位名...
