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Playing chicken with currencies
Why 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?
Don'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
By 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
Is 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”
中國消費(fèi)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(jìn)入中國,因?yàn)橥该?、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
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(yuǎn)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(dāng)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
Okay, 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
全球經(jīng)濟(jì)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(zhǔn)平衡。多國央行都對本國經(jīng)濟(jì)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(jì)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
全球經(jīng)濟(jì)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(zhǔn)平衡。多國央行都對本國經(jīng)濟(jì)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(jì)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?
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...
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