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The happiness index: Is the UK onto something?
Eleanor Bloxham 2010-12-17 06:31Companies 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?
財(cái)富中文網(wǎng) 2009-11-02 06:20Even 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
Andy Serwer 2010-06-13 10:18America'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
Philip Elmer-DeWitt 2010-11-15 06:22One 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)儲主席加入“幸福指數(shù)”運(yùn)動
Nin-Hai Tseng 2012-08-09 06:53每次我們試圖評估美國經(jīng)濟(jì)的健康狀況時,通常都會看國民生產(chǎn)總值(Gross Domestic Product,GDP)等宏觀性數(shù)據(jù)。但最近幾年,越來越多的經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家們表示,GDP或許并不能完全反映個人狀況,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)。所有這些或許聽起...
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國民幸福排行榜出爐,這個國家的人最幸福
Alexa Mikhail 2024-03-29 03:30圖片來源:ASPHOTOWED—GETTY IMAGES芬蘭連續(xù)第七年被評為世界上最幸福的國家。今年3月20日發(fā)布的年度《世界幸福報(bào)告》(World Happiness Report)對140多個國家的近15萬人自我報(bào)告的幸福分?jǐn)?shù)進(jìn)行了排名。其他北歐國家也不甘示弱,躋身前十位,其中丹麥排名第二位,冰...
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有錢確實(shí)能買來幸福
Nin-Hai Tseng 2013-05-03 11:37人們總說金錢買不到幸福,但一項(xiàng)新的研究表明幸福也是可以買到的。實(shí)際上,一個人擁有的金錢越多,就會越幸福。這對一部分人來說可能是很明顯的道理,但長期以來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
Alexandra Muller, 彭博社 2023-11-08 03:30位于倫敦城(City of London,即倫敦金融區(qū))的英國央行(Bank of England)和倫敦皇家交易所(Royal Exchange)的全景圖。圖片來源:VUK VALCIC/SOPA IMAGES/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES英國投資銀行Peel Hunt...
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Why fears of hyperinflation won't die
Kit R. Roane 2010-08-06 10:26Deflation 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
Geoff Smith 2014-05-27 12:24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)三年來表現(xiàn)最好的一個季度。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,這個數(shù)字對...