13-06-08 Two or three hundred years ago, when people were far from being so crafty（狡猾的） and cunning as they are now-a-day, an extraordinary event took place in a little town. By some mischance one of the great owls, called horned owls, had come from the...

13-06-03 原文：Young people are being priced out of the housing market. 原译：年轻人正被房价赶出住房市...

13-05-13 Many people express objections against child labor, exploitation of the workforce or meat production involving cruelty against animals. At the same time, however, people ignore their own moral standards when acting as market participants, searching...

13-05-08 Government policies that boost the amount of home ownership in a country are likely to inflict severe damage on the labour market, new research from the University of Warwick suggests. Professor Andrew Oswald from the University of Warwick and Profe...

13-04-18 Shares of Apple dipped below the $400 mark for the first time since December 2011. 苹果股份自2011年11月以来首次跌破400美元大关。 Its shares fell as low as $398.11 in Wednesday trading, before ending the day down 5.5% at $402.80. The concerns were tr...

13-04-15 government bonds 政府债券 fiscal credibility 财政信用 special deductions 特殊扣减 bipartisan committee 两党委员会 congressional committee process 国会委员会程序 reserve currency 储备货币 financing cost 融资成本 debt ceiling crisis 债务限额危机 raise...

13-03-15 Sushi is no longer the sole preserve of the adventurous diner. These days, grabbing a pack for lunch is almost as common as picking up a cheese and pickle sandwich. 寿司不再是美食冒险家的专利了。如今，买一盒寿司作午餐几乎就像买奶酪泡菜三明治一样稀松...

13-02-27 MOOCs ( Massive Open Online Courses ) are the latest addition to the acronym-bound lexicon of higher education, and quite possibly the most significant of them all. They represent a new generation of online education, freely accessible on the intern...

13-01-25 The global jobless queue will stretch to more than 200 million people this year, the International Labour Organization said in its annual report on Tuesday, repeating a warning it has made at the start of each of the last six years. 根据国际劳工组织...

13-01-24 Computing giant Apple has reported flat profits and record revenues that still fell short of market expectations. 2012年苹果盈利平平，收益未达到市场预期。 Net profit came in at $13.1bn, unchanged from a year earlier due in part to higher costs assoc...