... on their side, and only by balancing the two perspectives will we muster the sense of urgency that the climate crisis requires. To inspire hope, the first expert might point out that the cost of sola ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-11
... rtably. Besides having purposeful social missions, Millennials and Gen Z tend to place more emphasis on striking work-life balances. They tend to prefer flexible working hours to a 9-6 work schedule a ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-09
... nd life inside Putin’s Russia insupportable. Olga Smirnova, prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet, moved to Amsterdam. She said that she “never would have thought” that she’d be “ashamed of Russia,” b ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-08
Last month, the world’s attention was focused on the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Beyond the headline-grabbing developments – especially President Xi Jinping’s confirm ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-02
... million residents, we are primed for huge growth potential and a fast-track to economic recovery. For the Greater Bay Area cities to develop, businesses on each side of the border must align strategic ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-25
... the labor side), and massive infrastructure lock-ins make the economist’s tidy solution nearly impossible. Consider, for example, that over 90% of global coal power capacity is insulated from market c ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-19
Project Syndicate: In March, you wrote that higher inflation was “inevitable and therefore not regrettable,” because it was “a side effect and a consequence of the robust recovery,” which amounts to a ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-17
... to supply side reforms and are not demand driven. While the government cracked down on developers’ debt-fuelled growth strategies, this has not removed the fact that demand remains robust. Therefore, ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-11
... se idea. Aside from adding an estimated £100 billion ($108 billion) to the UK’s already high debt load, they also will distort the incentives to reduce fossil-fuel consumption at a time when it is in ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-04
Soon after the 2020 presidential election, the incoming Biden administration set about mapping out its economic agenda. It took pains to avoid three mistakes. First, it was committed not to fall into ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-03
... iden’s presidency have been marked by a similar mix. The dollar is now highly overvalued – at least according to the standard valuation criteria – and one must wonder when some holders might start to ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-30
... the asset side of the BOJ’s balance sheet is estimated to be 6.5 years, and their average return is extremely low. Yet, in reality, a technical insolvency would be a non-event. Unrealized losses are n ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-29
On September 21, President Vladimir Putin declared that Russia would turn to partial mobilisation of the country’s population over what he had previously dubbed a ‘special military operation’ in Ukrai ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-22
... d. Supply-side constraints drove inflation higher, and now supply-side factors are bringing inflation back down. To be sure, many economists (including some at the Fed) expected the supply-side interr ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-13
... piece of side evidence was that almost all my good friends were either infected or isolated in the last three months. It was reported over 10 percent of elderly have not reported their positive rapid ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-07
... live – outside of the major established tech hubs. When Gruber and I published these ideas in 2019, the reaction was polite but muted. Breaking the tyranny of distance seemed hard to most people. Afte ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-01
... ther this side NOR the other side that wins out? Above all, could debating not sow the dangerous seeds of excessive rebelliousness – to be contrarian for the sake of contrarianism, as opposed to harne ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-26
