【Native Speaker每日综合训练—36系列】【36-14】经管

cyndichiang

Time2  1'22''
Data often fails to help make decision,but unconscious mind does.

Time3 1'45''
Though data has many advantages,such as effective persuasion, stories are also important because they can active emotional unconscious decision-making.

Time4 2'07''
Sony announced a loss in this fiscal year,but before that, it had estimated a gain.
Sony has experienced a loss that is much more than previously estimated.
Sony dumped its PC business and faced challenges from others'TV  businesses      
                       
Time5 1'26''
It is unlikely to exit TV business because of the huge cost
S business cannot rescue Sony's TV business.

Time6 2'00''
Target-date fund is a strategy used by employers to put their employees' incomes into a account and to use the money as asset. Then emplyees can get this money when they retire
Though most employees follow this fund, a few proportion money they put into this account.
This fund gets lower return and seems to be a failure

Obstacle :
Brazil's economy has been stable for 50 years and its workers are unproductive.
The growth of GDP in Brazil is much lower than other countries' and remains stagnant,so does the per production of employee.
Many companies are unproductive because of the poor management.
Some other factors account for this stable economy:
Preferential tax treatment for firms  and protectionism
Though overweening regulation yielded some good consequences, but it cannot last for long.