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2021年经济学人 华尔街巨骗伯纳德·麦道夫在狱中去世(4)
Everyone was dumbfounded. His legitimate business had flourished for 36 years, skilfully built up from trading over-the-counter penny stocks to a firm with 200 employees and a glassy Midtown office. He did not need the money. At his trial in 2009 he
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2021年经济学人 拉多娜·“勇敢的公牛”·阿拉德(1)
Obituary 讣告 LaDonna Brave Bull Allard 拉多娜勇敢的公牛阿拉德 Black snake, sacred water 黑蛇，圣水 LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, historian and campaigner for Native-American rights, died on April 10th, aged 64 拉多娜勇敢的公牛阿
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2021年经济学人 拉多娜·“勇敢的公牛”·阿拉德(2)
It happened because they were living in prophecy, the sort the old women liked to discuss round the kitchen table while she, and the other young, pretended not to hear. 这样的情况再次上演，是因为他们活在预言里，那种年迈女族人
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2021年经济学人 拉多娜·“勇敢的公牛”·阿拉德(3)
It was up to them to crush the snake. She was no activist: her loves were genealogy and archaeology, pursued through university and now for her tribe. Her way was to invoke the past like a mantra, as she did when she quickly, firmly gave her real ide
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2021年经济学人 拉多娜·“勇敢的公牛”·阿拉德(4)
It lasted the best part of a year. At first the Obama administration had allowed the pipeline, then paused it; the Trump administration, citing the national interest, ordered it to resume, but was found in violation of federal law. 这次的集会持续
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2021年经济学人 美国成瘾药物滥用成灾(1)
Books arts 文艺板块 Book review 书评 Opioids in America 美国阿片类药物 Bitter pills 让人更痛苦的药物 Empire of Pain. By Patrick Radden Keefe. 《痛苦帝国》。作者：帕特里克雷登基夫 At 50,000 overdose deaths a year
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2021年经济学人 美国成瘾药物滥用成灾(2)
The company peddled theories of pseudo-addiction (for which the cure was said to be more opioids) and of opiophobia among sceptical doctors. The guardrails against harm buckled in the face of Purdues wealth and the lawyers and lobbyists it could buy.
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2021年经济学人 自由无罪,审查无理(1)
Books arts 文艺板块 Book review 书评 Censorship -- And be damned 这该死的审查制度 Dangerous Ideas. By Eric Berkowitz. 《危险的思想》。作者：埃里克伯克维茨 This lively and wide-ranging history of censorship opens with a
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2021年经济学人 自由无罪,审查无理(2)
Entertaining as they are, court pratfalls were the exception. Mr Berkowitz stresses that suppression had the upper hand until recently. Free speechs most eloquent modern champion, John Stuart Mill, published On Liberty in 1859; but in Europe and Amer
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2021年经济学人 日不落帝国的崛起蓄势待发(1)
Oversold over here 这里超卖了 The bull case for beaten-up Britain 对饱受打击的英国来说是牛市 One of the vices of Britons is a penchant for mourning the country's decline. To be cured of this, Britain would probably need a different
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2021年经济学人 日不落帝国的崛起蓄势待发(2)
The country still attracts more venture capital than any otherin Europe. London is an asset in this regard. If your ambition is to build a globally relevant technology company, it helps to start it in a global city. Berlin is cool and cheap, but lack
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2021年经济学人 美国房产投资的“鱼和熊掌”(1)
Inflation 通胀 House on fire 火爆的房地产 What America's hot housing market means for consumer prices 美国火爆的房地产市场对消费者价格来说意味着什么 The American economy last year may have suff?ered its deepest downturn
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2021年经济学人 美国房产投资的“鱼和熊掌”(2)
Over the long run, however, economic theory suggests that rents and prices should move in tandem (ie, the ratio of house prices to rents should be stable). If rental growth catches up with prices, that could have a big effect. Rents make up one-fifth
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2021年经济学人 法国的房地产
Property in France 法国的房地产 Terminal value 最终价值 A ghoulish financial product gets a fresh lease of life 一种令人毛骨悚然的金融产品获得了新生 Who has not dreamed of owning a pied--terre in Paris, or perhaps overlook
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2021年经济学人 结束新冠的代价是什么?(1)
COVID-19 新冠病毒 The best public investment ever 有史以来最好的公共投资 What will it cost to end the pandemic? 结束新冠的代价是什么？ On may 2nd thousands of masked nurses, doctors and others who have battled against covid-
