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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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百胜中国遭遇鸡肉“围城”
Shelley DuBois 2013-05-13 06:57中国消费者觉得被百胜（Yum Brands）出卖了。这个总部位于美国肯塔基州的快餐王国拥有肯德基（KFC）、必胜客（Pizza Hut）和塔可钟（Taco Bell）等品牌。百胜大举进入中国，因为透明、正直的西方餐饮公司形象而备受青睐。但在2012年底，中国食品调查人员发现，百胜的中国供应商往鸡饲料...
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投资比特币需知三件事
Ryan Derousseau 2017-12-04 05:30比特币的潜在巨大收益一直吸引着部分投资者，同样巨大的风险则让一部分投资者敬而远之。那么大家应该把它列入黑色星期五的投资清单吗？这种加密货币当然会波动。以本月初为例，比特币在五天时间里暴跌25%，原因是人们担心旨在加快处理速度的新版比特币，也就是比特币现金（Bitcoin Cash）会削弱比特币作为支...
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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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全球竞争力之争：货币战不是出路
Dinesh Paliwal 2011-09-30 01:32全球经济可能重新陷入衰退，各国市场持续剧烈波动，各国央行在货币政策制定方面必须艰难地找准平衡。多国央行都对本国经济注入了庞大的刺激资金，使主权债务余额大幅增加，可能需要几十年时间才能消化；有些央行则暗示会削减刺激计划并提高利率，使人们更加担忧突如其来的通胀可能影响经济复苏。尽管这些央行的行为不尽完美...
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全球竞争力之争：货币战不是出路
Dinesh Paliwal 2011-09-30 01:32全球经济可能重新陷入衰退，各国市场持续剧烈波动，各国央行在货币政策制定方面必须艰难地找准平衡。多国央行都对本国经济注入了庞大的刺激资金，使主权债务余额大幅增加，可能需要几十年时间才能消化；有些央行则暗示会削减刺激计划并提高利率，使人们更加担忧突如其来的通胀可能影响经济复苏。尽管这些央行的行为不尽完美...
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鸡汤治感冒：确有疗效还是安慰剂？
THE CONVERSATION 2023-10-28 03:30图片来源：GETTY IMAGES虽然不知道这个习俗是从哪儿传下来的，不过给生病的人炖一碗鸡汤，是千百年来世界各国通行的习俗。不管是哪个的民族文化似乎都对鸡汤的疗效深信不疑。虽说美国的鸡汤总是跟面条一起出现，但是各种文化似乎都有自己的鸡汤烹饪方法。在西方，鸡汤治病的记载最早可以追溯到公元60年一位名...
