15-04-09 Is it worth having birds in the city? If you live in Seattle or Berlin, the answer is yes, to the tune of $120 million and $70 million a year for each city, respectively. A new study published last month in the journal Urban Ecosystems tries to dete...

15-04-04 Hi, everybody. Five years ago, after the worst financial crisis in decades, we passed historic Wall Street reform to end the era of bailouts and too big to fail. As part that reform, we created an independent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wit...

15-03-16 Frugal fatigue refers to mental exhaustion caused by constant frugality during hard economic times. 节俭疲劳指的是经济困难时期长时间节俭引发的心理疲劳。 A strong Black Friday would induce consumers to relax the spending restraint they have exercised...

15-03-16 Lowflation refers to a persistently low level of inflation, particularly one that threatens a countrys economic prosperity. 低通胀指的是持续保持较低的通胀水平，低通胀往往会威胁到一个国家的经济繁荣。 Example: If the current lowflation goes on for lon...

15-03-12 China is faced with a more complex and arduous task of ensuring employment in 2015 against the backdrop of an economic slowdown, China's human resources minister said Tuesday. 中国人社部部长3月10日表示，在经济增速放缓的大背景下，2015年中国的就业形势...

15-03-12 If the wife of a leader chases after vanity and often says to her husband, why do other leaders have houses and cars while we have nothing?, the leader may take risks to accept bribes to satisfy his wife out of shame. Conversely, if the wife refuses...

15-03-12 Everyone from Kim Kardashian and Margot Robbie to Rosamund Pike and Cheryl Fernandez-Versini have chopped off their long locks recently, making shorter hair a bona fide trend. 从金卡戴珊，玛格特罗比，到罗莎曼德派克和谢丽尔科尔，几乎每个人最近都剪掉...

15-03-11 The nation can achieve its GDP growth target of around 7 percent this year without any risk of a systemic financial crisis, said members of the country's top political advisory body on Friday. 3月6日，部分全国政协委员表示，中国能在2015年实现GDP增长7...

15-02-25 UK Treasury chief George Osborne has introduced a new 25% tax on foreign companies profits derived from economic activity in the UK. He singled out tech companies as particular abusers of the system. Though he didn't name names, the British press qu...

15-01-29 The Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Committee (ECC) on Thursday morning opened its seventh regular meeting in Taipei to review the implementation of a landmark trade agreement signed by the mainland and Taiwan in 2010. 周四上午，两岸经济合作委员会...