... d too high. I stand by the guesswork despite Biden’s sharply worded comments of late. At a fundraiser two weeks ago, he warned that China’s struggles with high unemployment and an aging work force mak ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-25
At least half of the global population lacks access to essential health services, and health-care expenses push almost 100 million people into extreme poverty each year. How scarce resources are distr ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-25
“The world, as we know it, is becoming increasingly multi-polar.” This is a proposition oft-trotted out to describe or highlight the significance of events such as the ongoing BRICS Summit in Johannes ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-25
In just one year, inflation in the United States has fallen from a peak of about 9% to just 3%. Standard economic models suggest that such rapid disinflation would be possible only with a large increa ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-18
Disruptive technologies are rarely welcomed by workers or others with a significant stake in the status quo. Innovation requires adaptation, and adaptation is costly. Powerful incumbents’ resistance t ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-17
... tervention. Fearing China’s dominance in clean-tech supply chains, and recognizing the potential for job creation, the United States has put in place a wide range of industrial policies that support t ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-17
安科系統(08353) 澄清公告. 關於發布 2023 財年經審計年度業績和 寄發 2023 財年年度報告的最 ...全文
What a difference two years make. In 2021, when interest rates were near zero in the United States and the United Kingdom and slightly negative in the eurozone and Japan, the consensus was that they w ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-16
... n hydrogen.” Yet it would be cheaper to replace America’s more than 200 coal-fired plants with new solar or wind facilities, and then to do the same with its gas plants soon thereafter. This claim wil ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-15
Wang Li graduated from university with a degree in political science and public administration. Now she is working in Guiyang, southwest China, as a live-in domestic help. It is not her first choice, ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-15
The 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) included - for the first time in history - burnout as an occupational phenomenon. ICD-11 defines burnout as “a syndrome conce ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-14
The COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have caused commodity prices to soar in recent years, severely undermining global food security. Now, global food prices are down from the peaks of a year ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-11
... a monolith. We could ill afford to lump them all together in one category, and assert that “This is what the youth really think!” Indeed, the last thing we should do is to appoint a figure(head) or tw ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-11
2022 was a year of inflation. Most central banks were behind the curve and had to tighten aggressively to catch up. In 2023, I think focus has been more centered around the economic cycle. Inflation i ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-11
Since the release of ChatGPT to the public late last year, generative AI has seen an exponential rate of adoption. The major breakthrough behind these models is the transformer architecture (first dev ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-10
I had the pleasure of watching ‘Barbie’ - by myself - earlier this week. Truth be told, I went in with relatively low expectations. I have a general aversion to movie hypes and hyped-up movies, and ha ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-09
