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问答题As a young bond trader, Buttonwood was given two pieces of advice, trading rules of thumb, if you will: that bad economic news is good news for bond markets and that every utterance dropping from the lips of Paul Volcker, the then chairman of the Federal Reserve, and the man who restored the central bank"s credibility by stomping on runaway inflation, should be respected than Pope"s orders. Today"s traders are, of course, a more sophisticated bunch. But the advice still seems good, apart from two slight drawbacks. The first is that the well-chosen utterances from the present chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, is of more than passing difficulty.
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The second is that, of late, good news for the economy has not seemed to upset bond investors all that much.
For all the cheer that has crackled down the wires, the yield on ten-year bonds—which you would expect to rise on good economic news—is now, at 4.2%, only two-fifths of a percentage point higher than it was at the start of the year. Pretty much unmoved, in other words.
Yet the news from the economic front has been better by far than anyone could have expected. On Tuesday November 25th, revised numbers showed that America"s economy grew by an annual 8.2% in the third quarter, a full percentage point more than originally thought, driven by the ever-spendthrift American consumer and, for once, corporate investment.
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Just about every other piece of information coming out from special sources shows the same strength.
New houses are still being built at a fair clip. Exports are rising, for all the protectionist crying. Even employment, in what had been mocked as a jobless recovery, increased by 125,000 or thereabouts in September and October.
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Rising corporate profits, low credit spreads and the biggest-ever rally in the junk-bond market do not, on the face of it, suggest anything other than a deep and long-lasting recovery.
Yet Treasury-bond yields have fallen.
If the rosy economic backdrop makes this odd, making it doubly odd is an apparent absence of foreign demand Foreign buyers of Treasuries, especially Asian certral banks, who had been swallowing American government debt like there was no tomorrow, seem to have had second thoughts lately.
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In September, according to the latest available figures, foreigners bought only $5-6 billion of Treasuries, compared with
$25.1 billion the previous month and an average of $38.7 billion in the preceding four months.
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In an effort to keep a lid on the yen"s rise, the Japanese central bank is still busy buying dollars and parking the money in government debt.
Just about everyboby else seems to have been selling.
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问答题 Directions: Write a poster to your schoolmates, informing them of a new book to be released. You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter; use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write the address.
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问答题To be a good manager, you have to like people and be good at communicating. This is hard to fake. If you don"t genuinely enjoy interacting with people, it"ll be hard to manage them well. At my company, in addition to regular team meetings and one-on-one sessions between managers and employees, we use mass gatherings periodically and e-mail routinely to communicate what we expect from employees.
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问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}Studythefollowingbarchartscarefullyandwriteanessayto1)pointouttheimplicationofthebarcharts,2)analyzethephenomenon,and3)givesomesuggestionsYoushouldwrite160-200wordsonANSWERSHEETⅡ.
问答题新的一年才刚刚开始,你就发现很难坚持“告别垃圾食品、远离沙发、戒烟”这些新年决心了吧?我们很难改掉坏习惯是由于生物学的原因——这些坏习惯根植于我们的大脑中。
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这并不是让人放弃新年决心的借口。了解不健康的习惯怎样变得根深蒂固可以启发科学家研究出一些让好习惯代替坏习惯的“技巧”。
诺拉·沃尔夫博士说:“为什么坏习惯更加顽固?因为它能带来即时的犒赏,而这种即时犒赏的力量很强大。”
那么这一点快乐的感觉是怎样转化为一种习惯的呢?这与一种感知快乐的化学物质多巴胺有
关。多巴胺使大脑不断期望得到这种犒赏,从而不断加强快乐感与这种行为之间的联系,特别是当它能从周围环境中得到正确的暗示时。
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一项“为行为变化买单”的运动可能会对这种联系加以利用,在这项运动中,一些公司给雇员提“即时报酬”或是“保险回扣”,以激励他们形成更好的习惯。
不管这项运动结果如何,研究人员说我们的确可以采取某些行为来对抗坏习惯对大脑的吸引力。
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那就是,重复,重复,再重复你的新行为,使之成为每天固定时间的例行活动。下决心锻炼?那就每天早上固定时间锻炼,而不要随意找时间,这样会使大脑最终接受这个新习惯。
神经学家沃尔科夫也是一个热爱跑步的人,他说:“如果你哪天没锻炼,变会感觉很糟糕。”
运动本身能提升多巴胺的水平,这样尽管运动结束后你的肌肉感觉酸痛,但是你的大脑还是会感觉良好。
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