... original COVID-19 strain, as well as Alpha, Delta, and such. Yet Omicron – and its motley crew of evolving strains – has changed everything. We are now facing a virus that is so fundamentally transmi ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-15
... violence, COVID-19 is still with us, and developed economies are facing the prospect of a stagflationary recession. But while millions of people around the world are suffering economically and emotion ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-15
... one from Covid-19 financial troubles. Pre-existing social inequalities are therefore magnified,” they wrote. The long duration of the pandemic has reinforced the desire of young people to join the st ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-14
... from the COVID-19 pandemic. That is when China ran short of coal and prices shot up. The global market for liquefied natural gas (LNG) then tightened, with prices skyrocketing, and oil prices rose as ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-14
... one from Covid-19 financial troubles. Pre-existing soc ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2022年07月14日
Around the world, high inflation, slow economic growth, and food shortages are hurting the poor the most. Coming on top of the unequal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, today’s multiple crises have al ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-13
... op of the COVID-19 pandemic. When will the shocks end? They won’t. So, we can choose either resignation and despair, or a policy agenda to build social and political resilience against future shocks. ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-08
... se to the COVID-19 shock. The UK is a particularly dramatic example of this. In the first financial year of COVID-19, the Bank of England bought up 99.5% of government debt – and over 100% the followi ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-07
... 20 as the COVID-19 pandemic spread worldwide. Two years later, in March 2022, the price soared to $133 per barrel after Russia invaded Ukraine. Now it is falling again amid growing fears of a recessio ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-06
... sa is the Covid-19 epidemic, which decimated Thailand’s booming tourist industry and large number of digital nomads. Before the pandemic, the country attracted 40 million visitors a year, spending mor ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-05
... following COVID-19 lockdowns. The situation is a significant reversal of much of 2021, when portside iron ore traded at a premium to seaborne, before a build-up of portside stocks triggered the shift ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-04
... e initial COVID-19 lockdowns, supply-chain bottlenecks, a reduced US labor supply, the impact of Russia’s war in Ukraine on commodity prices, and China’s “zero-COVID” policy). While both demand and su ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-30
... tic help. Covid-19 still infects the population. In May, UK inflation hit a 40-year-high of 9.1 per cent year-on-year. Such has been the rush to leave that many have found the move difficult, struggli ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-30
... tic help. Covid-19 still infects the population. In May ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2022年06月30日
The world is facing a triple crisis of food, energy, and water scarcity. While its immediate triggers were the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war, its roots run much deeper: a culture of relentless ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-29
