16-04-08 Money could buy happiness if your purchases fit your personality, according to a new study that examines nearly 77,000 actual UK bank spending transactions. The study, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychologica...

13-09-26 Departments under the central government and organizations that receive public funds are planning to spend 7.97 billion yuan this year to buy and use cars, travel overseas and host meetings - collectively known as the three public expenses - the Min...

13-08-11 Since the mid-1980s, unrestrained household spending has damaged American family finances -- despite the fact that globalization and technological change have caused consumer prices to fall widely, says Queens College sociologist Joseph Nathan Cohen...

13-03-04 US President Barack Obama has signed into effect a wave of steep spending cuts which he has warned could damage the US economy. 美国总统奥巴马签署生效了一批大幅削减开支的法案，他曾警告这将损害美国经济的发展。 The cuts - known as the sequester（使隔...

12-09-19 More and more older people are skiing and it has nothing to do with snow and slopes: this type of skiing stands for Spending the Kids Inheritance, or SKI. 越来越多的老年人加入了滑雪行列，不过这里的滑雪（ski）跟雪和滑雪道没什么关系，而是 Spending the...

11-02-01 Consumer spending in the US grew at its fastest pace in three years during 2010, official figures have shown. 官方统计数据显示，2010年美国消费性开支增长是近三年以来最高的一年。 Consumer spending makes up more than two-thirds of activity in the US, t...

10-03-19 It may come as a shock to husbands fond of accusing their wives of frittering the family finances on shoes and handbags, but a study has found that women are in fact better at budgeting than men. 一项研究发现，女性在花钱方面其实比男性更有计划，这可...