A couple of years ago film-maker David Bond realized that his children, then aged five and three, were attached to screens to the point where he was able to say "chocolate" into his three-year-old son's ear without getting a response.

几年前，电影制作人大卫·邦德意识到他的两个孩子（当时分别是5岁和3岁）都离不开屏幕，以至于他对着3岁的儿子的耳朵说“巧克力”都没有回应。

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On September 9th, Hankook Tyre, a tyre maker with an investment-grade rating, issued 45 billion won-worth of three-year bonds at some 40 basis points (hundredths of a percentage point) above the average three-year bond yield in the secondary market.

ECONOMIST: South Korean bonds

However, the model also suggests that, if lower interest rates are to revive the economy, a cut of 2.5 percentage points (the size of the cut until this week) would normally be expected to have lifted share prices by 22% within a year, reduced long-term bond yields by three-quarters of a point, and left the dollar 5% weaker.

ECONOMIST: Is monetary policy less effective these days?