The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday cut its global economic growth forecasts for 2018 and 2019, saying that trade policy tensions and the imposition of import tariffs were taking a toll on comm ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-09
Since World War II’s end, trade has grown 50 percent faster than global GDP, owing largely to successive rounds of liberalization under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (previously the Gen ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-09
Americans William Nordhaus and Paul Romer, pioneers in adapting the western economic growth model to focus on environmental issues and sharing the benefits of technology, won the 2018 Nobel Economics ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-09
近日很多人已形容中美關係為全面「冷戰」，跟當年前總統列根對付蘇聯的手法一模一樣。我當然是很久以前已指出總統特朗 ...全文
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was ready to allow international inspectors into the North’s nuclear and missile testing sites, one of the main stickin ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-08
A meeting of top US and Chinese diplomats got off to a frosty start on Monday, with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Chinese Foreign Minister and State Councillor Wang Yi airing grievances amid w ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-08
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un described his talks with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday as “productive and wonderful”, Reuters says, citing a report from state media KCNA on Monday. Kim a ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-08
Populist leaders have long made gains by posing as the alternative to a “corrupt elite” that enriches itself at the expense of “the people”. According to the populists, only they can restore decency t ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-05
So far no one knows when, and how, the escalating trade war between the United States and China will end. But everyone knows – except US President Donald Trump and his cohorts perhaps – that the entir ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-04
The Trump administration pulled out of two international agreements after Iran and the Palestinians complained to the International Court of Justice about US policies, the latest withdrawal by Washing ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-04
As we went to press, we heard US President Donald Trump’s announcement imposing a 10 percent import tariff on US$200 billion of Chinese imports from Sept. 24. Relations between the United States and C ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-03
Populist economics has rarely had it so good. The US economy is roaring, the stock market is soaring, and the Trump administration’s protectionism has apparently had a negligible impact on growth. Tru ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-03
US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell hailed a “remarkably positive outlook” for the US economy that he feels is on the verge of a “historically rare” era of ultra-low unemployment and tame prices ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-03
Amazon.com Inc. said will raise its minimum wage to US$15 per hour for US employees from next month, giving in to critics of poor pay and working conditions at the online retailer, Reuters reports. Th ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-03
Ten years ago when I authored a short book on human rights to coincide with the Beijing Olympics, I wrote that the human rights situation was bad but used to be worse. Today, such a simple observation ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-02
US President Donald Trump touted a new trade deal with Canada and Mexico as a win for American workers while investors breathed a sigh of relief that the key pillars of NAFTA had survived his hardball ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-02
