-
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...
-
Do banks have something to hide?
财富中文网 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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
美联储主席加入“幸福指数”运动
Nin-Hai Tseng 2012-08-09 06:53每次我们试图评估美国经济的健康状况时,通常都会看国民生产总值(Gross Domestic Product,GDP)等宏观性数据。但最近几年,越来越多的经济学家们表示,GDP或许并不能完全反映个人状况,也不能反映是什么改善了人们的生活。他们认为,或许需要制定专门反映幸福程度的新指标。所有这些或许听起...
-
国民幸福排行榜出炉,这个国家的人最幸福
Alexa Mikhail 2024-03-29 03:30图片来源:ASPHOTOWED—GETTY IMAGES芬兰连续第七年被评为世界上最幸福的国家。今年3月20日发布的年度《世界幸福报告》(World Happiness Report)对140多个国家的近15万人自我报告的幸福分数进行了排名。其他北欧国家也不甘示弱,跻身前十位,其中丹麦排名第二位,冰...
-
有钱确实能买来幸福
Nin-Hai Tseng 2013-05-03 11:37人们总说金钱买不到幸福,但一项新的研究表明幸福也是可以买到的。实际上,一个人拥有的金钱越多,就会越幸福。这对一部分人来说可能是很明显的道理,但长期以来的研究都告诉我们幸福不仅是金钱的富足。早在上世纪70年代,经济学家理查德•伊斯特林就曾经指出,人们的幸福感并没有随着不断增加的人均收入而提高,这就是后...
-
英国股市陷入“恶性循环”,正在削弱伦敦作为全球金融之都的地位
Alexandra Muller, 彭博社 2023-11-08 03:30位于伦敦城(City of London,即伦敦金融区)的英国央行(Bank of England)和伦敦皇家交易所(Royal Exchange)的全景图。图片来源:VUK VALCIC/SOPA IMAGES/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES英国投资银行Peel Hunt...
-
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...
-
调查结果预示欧亚经济正在复苏
Geoff Smith 2014-05-27 12:24上周四公布的调查结果显示,5月份,欧元区经济复苏力度稍有减弱,但仍有望出现三年来表现最好的一个季度。研究机构Markit公布,5月份,该机构的欧元区采购经理人指数(PMI)从54.0的三年高点微跌至53.9。美银美林(Bank of America Merrill Lynch)分析师估算,这个数字对...