2021-05-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Leaders
社论Long covid
新冠病毒的长期并发症And now for the aftershock
余波未平Evidence is mounting that long covid is a real threat to global health
越来越多的证据表明，新冠病毒

2021-05-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Happy because, in that mysterious office, he was carrying on the biggest Ponzi scheme in history. It was simplicity itself. The money sent to him by new investors was used to pay e

2021-05-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Obituary
讣告Bernard Madoff
伯纳德·麦道夫Just one big lie
惊世骗局Bernard Madoff, deviser of the biggest Ponzi scheme in history, died in prison on April 14th, aged 82
史上最大

2021-05-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Yet elsewhere the arguments in “How to Love Animals” are arresting. After pondering which sea creatures feel pain, Mr Mance rules that mussels, clams and oysters can be eaten in

2021-05-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

This suggests that the second factor, fear, may be important in explaining America's shortage of staff. Nearly 4m people are not looking for work "because of the coronavirus pa

2021-05-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The researchers hope this biotechnological wizardry will help with two goals. One is to shed light on the complicated process of embryological development, which might eventually l

2021-05-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts 文艺板块Book review 书评Interspecies relations 种间关系Creature discomforts 动物的烦恼How to Love Animals. By Henry Mance.《如何爱动物》。作者：亨利·曼斯Cat vid

2021-05-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Labour shortages in America
美国的劳动力短缺Help wanted
急聘Why workers are hard to find, even though unemployment is high
为什么在失业率高的情况下，工人还是很难找到The pandemic

2021-05-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Lyft has followed Uber in giving up the development of autonomous vehicles. The ride-hailing company sold its self-driving-cars unit to Toyota. It will be integrated into the Japan

2021-05-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The inability to share data is forcing advertisers to come up with new ruses. One is to bypass rules banning data transfers between ad-tech companies by consolidating. In February

2021-05-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

For Facebook, which knows more about its users’ interests than about their shopping needs, Apple’s changes are more worrying. In August it warned they might reduce revenues at it

2021-05-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The researchers began with 132 embryos of the crab-eating macaque. Six days after fertilisation these were injected with human extended pluripotent stem cells, which can develop in

2021-05-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week 一周国际要闻Business 商业版块In a speech to a joint session of Congress, Joe Biden laid out his American Families Plan, the most ambitious attempt to expand soc

2021-05-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Hungary passed a law to hand control of state universities to foundations. These are likely to be run by ruling-party supporters, who can appoint their successors. This arrangement

2021-05-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week
本周国际要闻Politics
政治版块India’s second wave of COVID-19 gained strength. The number of infections detected hit new records, with some 380,000 on April

2021-05-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Stronger privacy protections may make their ads less effective. In 2018 the EU imposed its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and America’s most-populous state introduced t

2021-05-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块Digital advertising
数字广告Flying blind
两眼一摸黑Apple’s privacy rules force marketers to find new ways to target ads
苹果的隐私规则迫使营销商在精准投放广告

2021-05-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

On the other side are the likes of Asmaa Zanaty, a teacher who can’t believe her colleagues turn away students too poor to pay. Her beloved, Mazen, a workers’ representative, say

2021-05-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts
文艺版块Book review
书评Egyptian fiction
埃及小说A general in his labyrinth
陷入迷途的将军The Republic of False Truths. By Alaa Al Aswany
《虚假真理共和国》，作者

2021-05-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Experimental biology
实验生物学Fantastic beasts and how to make them
神兽以及如何创造神兽Researchers have created embryos from a mix of monkey cells and human ones
研究人员创造出

2021-05-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The debt burden and maturity profile only get you so far. There are three other influences that investors might usefully bear in mind. The first is commodity prices. The collapse i

2021-05-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In a corner were the biographies that had been written about him. And on a table by a window stood an array of family photographs in black and white. Lots of relatives, but no chil

2021-05-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Productivity can also be unleashed by broadening access to opportunities. Many rich-world labour markets are divided between the high- and low-skilled. That is tolerable so long as

2021-05-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The long-term future of work has changed for the better this year because it has become more digitised. Remote working is easing the bottleneck of expensive housing in thriving cit

2021-05-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The Gremlin-mothership arrangement is distinguished by its scale. But several smaller versions of the underlying idea are also in development. One is being put together by General