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The happiness index: Is the UK onto something?
Companies are often slaves to irrelevant performance metrics. Despite recent criticisms, perhaps the UK has the right idea in developing a happiness i...
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Do banks have something to hide?
Even experts have a hard time getting a handle on how bad losses might get as the commercial real estate market implodes.By Colin BarrThe banks have t...
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US vs. UK: A history of love and hate
America's relationship with the U.K. has always been complicated. Start with the fact that our country was founded by religious fanatics who left Engl...
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iPad is No. 3 holiday wish, after world peace/happiness and a laptop
One of Apple's (AAPL) public relations operatives e-mailed overnight to let me know that a Consumer Electronics Association survey -- one that put the...
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美聯(lián)儲(chǔ)主席加入“幸福指數(shù)”運(yùn)動(dòng)
每次我們?cè)噲D評(píng)估美國(guó)經(jīng)濟(jì)的健康狀況時(shí),通常都會(huì)看國(guó)民生產(chǎn)總值(Gross Domestic Product,GDP)等宏觀性數(shù)據(jù)。但最近幾年,越來(lái)越多的經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家們表示,GDP或許并不能完全反映個(gè)人狀況,也不能反映是什么改善了人們的生活。他們認(rèn)為,或許需要制定專門反映幸福程度的新指標(biāo)。所有這些或許聽(tīng)起...
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國(guó)民幸福排行榜出爐,這個(gè)國(guó)家的人最幸福
圖片來(lái)源:ASPHOTOWED—GETTY IMAGES芬蘭連續(xù)第七年被評(píng)為世界上最幸福的國(guó)家。今年3月20日發(fā)布的年度《世界幸福報(bào)告》(World Happiness Report)對(duì)140多個(gè)國(guó)家的近15萬(wàn)人自我報(bào)告的幸福分?jǐn)?shù)進(jìn)行了排名。其他北歐國(guó)家也不甘示弱,躋身前十位,其中丹麥排名第二位,冰...
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有錢確實(shí)能買來(lái)幸福
人們總說(shuō)金錢買不到幸福,但一項(xiàng)新的研究表明幸福也是可以買到的。實(shí)際上,一個(gè)人擁有的金錢越多,就會(huì)越幸福。這對(duì)一部分人來(lái)說(shuō)可能是很明顯的道理,但長(zhǎng)期以來(lái)的研究都告訴我們幸福不僅是金錢的富足。早在上世紀(jì)70年代,經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家理查德?伊斯特林就曾經(jīng)指出,人們的幸福感并沒(méi)有隨著不斷增加的人均收入而提高,這就是后...
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英國(guó)股市陷入“惡性循環(huán)”,正在削弱倫敦作為全球金融之都的地位
位于倫敦城(City of London,即倫敦金融區(qū))的英國(guó)央行(Bank of England)和倫敦皇家交易所(Royal Exchange)的全景圖。圖片來(lái)源:VUK VALCIC/SOPA IMAGES/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES英國(guó)投資銀行Peel Hunt...
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Why fears of hyperinflation won't die
Deflation may be on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's tongue, but inflation is wagging in at least one corner of the economy. Obscure books anal...
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調(diào)查結(jié)果預(yù)示歐亞經(jīng)濟(jì)正在復(fù)蘇
上周四公布的調(diào)查結(jié)果顯示,5月份,歐元區(qū)經(jīng)濟(jì)復(fù)蘇力度稍有減弱,但仍有望出現(xiàn)三年來(lái)表現(xiàn)最好的一個(gè)季度。研究機(jī)構(gòu)Markit公布,5月份,該機(jī)構(gòu)的歐元區(qū)采購(gòu)經(jīng)理人指數(shù)(PMI)從54.0的三年高點(diǎn)微跌至53.9。美銀美林(Bank of America Merrill Lynch)分析師估算,這個(gè)數(shù)字對(duì)...
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