... is any upside to this approach. In fact, raising interest rates could do more harm than good, by making it more expensive for firms to invest in solutions to the current supply constraints. The US Fe ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-30
... 7 when President Xi Jinping needs to secure his fourth term as leader of the Chinese Communist Party. A victory over Taiwan would not only be more than enough politically for his continuous clinging t ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-26
... ter, both sides fought fiercely around Bakhmut in Donbas, with hundreds of casualties each day which render the battle a meat grinder. Kyrylo Budanov, the head of the Ukrainian Defence Intelligence, a ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-09
... curity considerations, and broader, strategic deliberations revolving around how countries relate to one another. Supply chains are being rerouted as we speak, despite the emerging patterns being neit ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-05
... on demand-side factors that will lead to higher spending, deficits, debt monetization, and inflation. But there are also many medium-term negative aggregate supply shocks that could add to today’s sta ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-03
... ization’s side pavilion. These discussions were particularly timely, given the current surge of COVID-19, fueled by the newest Omicron subvariants, in Europe and the United States. But, beyond a blink ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-19
... the worst side effects. There is no clear case for such stringent restrictions. Now, of course, one may reasonably protest that there remains the perennial risk that a) new variants and b) an overload ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-12
... The Sunny Side of the Street，印證了香港的堅毅不屈，人情味超濃。我一直覺得奧斯卡的 ...全文
... he supply side of the global economy has downshifted. It has downshifted because globalisation is slowing or reversing, because demographics are now deteriorating rapidly, and because changes in polit ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-09
... ousted president, Jair Bolsonaro (backed by Neymar), which has annoyed supporters of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, backed by the team coach, Tite, and the dyed-blond striker, Richarlison. The i ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-08
... e. On one side are Poland, Estonia, and Lithuania, pushing for a price of no more than $30 per barrel. On the other side are Greece, Crete, and Malta, which would prefer a price in the range of $60-70 ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-01
... 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
