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"In warm weather, fewer people wear socks," says Paul Rotstein of Gold Medal International, a wholesaler in New York. People may not sport socks in the summer but his firm starts shipping them to r...

“在温暖的天气，穿袜子的人更少，”纽约批发商Gold Medal International的保罗·罗斯坦说到。夏天人们可能不穿运动袜，但他的公司在7月份开学前就开始把袜子运送给零售商。但在他拿到钱之前，时间上存在一个大的延迟。通常，他会购...

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Instead, he beat him in politics, with words rather than fists. As things turned out, the contrasting styles of his predecessors may have made Mr Biden’s deeply prosaic register an asset after all. ...

相反，拜登没有动拳头，而是在政治上用言语击败了特朗普。事实证明，与前任总统们截然不同的风格竟然可能使拜登平淡无奇的语体风格变成难能可贵的财富。 奥巴马在2008年获得民主党党内提名时表示，我们的子孙后代可能会把这一时刻记为“海洋面上升...

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Books & arts. Johnson. Average Joe. The president-elect lacks a silver tongue and makes for poor TV. That may be an asset During the Obama years, the Onion, a satirical online newspaper, carri...

文艺板块 约翰逊专栏 普通人乔·拜登 这位当选总统没有流利的口才，电视表现也不佳。但这可能恰恰是他的可贵之处。 在奥巴马执政期间，讽刺性的网络报纸《洋葱报》刊登了一系列关于乔·拜登的文章，并在文中称他为“钻石乔”和“邪恶的...

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The price tag on BBVA's American franchise amounts to about 30 times its projected earnings in 2021, according to analysts at UBS, a bank. That is a lot for a unit that has long underperformed, postin...

据瑞士联合银行的分析师称，BBVA在美国的特许经营费用大约是其2021年预期收益的30倍。对于一个长期表现不佳的部门来说这是一个不小的数字，其净资产收益率约为6-7%(BBVA的墨西哥分支，其风险加权资产可与之比较，通常回报率为20%或更高...

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Retail banks. Bye bye America. The sale of BBVA's American unit to PNC may set off a wave of mergers. In May PNC, America's seventh-largest retail bank by assets, sold a stake in BlackRock, an as...

零售银行 拜拜美国 将BBVA的美国分部出售给PNC可能会掀起一股并购浪潮 今年5月，按资产计算为美国第七大零售银行的PNC以170亿美元的价格出售了资产管理公司贝莱德的股份。PNC的老板比尔·德姆查克当时表示，对经济的担忧促使...

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Some members have long pledged a tax on financial transactions. But as James Tobin, its intellectual godfather, supposedly said, the levy is like the Loch Ness Monster: the idea occasionally pop...

一些成员国长期以来一直承诺对金融交易征税。但正如其知识教父詹姆士·托宾所说，征税就像是尼斯湖水怪：这个想法偶尔会冒出来，然后又消失多年。 国家否决权可能会让向外国人征税看起来更有吸引力。领导人们表示，他们将努力在2023年前实施两项这...

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Nothing in this world is certain, mused Benjamin Franklin, except death and taxes. He never had to contend with the European Union's unanimity rule. Eurocrats have long sought to bolster the EU'...

世界上没有什么是确定的，本杰明·富兰克林沉思地说到，除了死亡和税收。他从不需要应付欧盟的一致同意规则。欧盟的官员一直以来都想用“自由资源”支撑欧盟预算——即应计收入，而不是成员国根据国民收入上交的现金。但几乎每一次将税收集中化的尝试都遭到了...

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Owners and managers are trying to make confinement more bearable with free internet and wage top-ups, says Andreas Hadjipetrou, the managing director of Columbia Shipmanagement. "One captain asked ...

船主和经理们正试图通过免费互联网和加薪来让禁闭变得更容易忍受，哥伦比亚船舶管理有限公司的总经理安德烈亚斯·哈吉佩特鲁说到。“一位船长要求健身设备和卡拉OK，”他说。“船员们组建了一个乐队，并给我们发了一段视频。”更重要的是，他们正在尽一切努...