In 1955, then-US Federal Reserve Chair William McChesney Martin famously said that the Fed’s job was to take away the punch bowl “just when the party was really warming up,” rather than waiting until ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-25
Instability is the new worldwide normal. From Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and tensions in the Taiwan Strait to the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change, the challenges the world faces are as varied a ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-25
For centuries, the streets of Cairo have been festooned with traditional lanterns to celebrate the holy month of Ramadan. In recent decades, the domestically produced lanterns were replaced by cheaper ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-24
世界各國領導人齊集里約熱內盧，就一系列措施達成一致，以啟動全球動員應對人為氣候變化，並滿足更可持續發展模式的必 ...全文
名家論壇Project Syndicate2022年02月23日
So far this century, the US Federal Reserve has been relentlessly gradualist about increasing the federal funds rate. Since its last 50-basis-point rate hike in May 2000, the Fed has increased its pol ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-23
The European Union and the governments of two member states, Hungary and Poland, have been on a collision course for years now. The broader dispute is about what, if anything, the EU may do when a mem ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-22
In every phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, community health workers have been indispensable. They have made diagnoses, carried out contact tracing, cared for the sick, and administered vaccinations. And ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-22
Argentina is about to enter another dysfunctional stand-by agreement with the International Monetary Fund – its 22nd SBA since it joined the IMF in 1956. While the details have not yet been settled, w ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-18
The 2019 Oscar-winning film Parasite attracted a global audience for its arresting portrayal of South Korea’s stark income inequality. The movie’s rendering of a low-income household’s acute sense of ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-17
After being postponed several times because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this month’s European Union-African Union Summit in Brussels (February 17-18) will bring together European and African heads of st ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-16
It has been 30 years since world leaders gathered in Rio de Janeiro and agreed on a set of measures to start the global mobilization against human-caused climate change and to meet the imperative of a ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-15
Imagine that a crisis emerges in your home, workplace, or community. You neither created it nor benefited from it. And yet, you are bearing the brunt of the consequences, while those who did create an ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-11
It has become abundantly clear that the United States has an inflation problem. What is not yet clear is how big the problem will turn out to be and how long it will last. Alarmed observers point to p ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-11
Not every sitting US president invites comparisons with a Roosevelt, let alone two members of that storied family. Since taking office just over a year ago, Joe Biden has frequently been likened to Pr ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-10
China has puzzled me for quite some time now, not least because some of its biggest current challenges appear to be self-induced. I have been fascinated with the Chinese economy since I first visited ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-10
In the history of modernity, the real sea change came in 1870, with what the Nobel laureate economist Simon Kuznets called “Modern Economic Growth.” Since then, humanity’s technological capabilities h ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-09
Ukraine’s Western friends claim that they are protecting the country by defending its right to join NATO. The opposite is true. In defending a theoretical right, they are jeopardizing Ukraine’s securi ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-09
Although some supply shortages were anticipated as the global economy reopened after the COVID-19 lockdowns, they have proved more pervasive, and less transitory, than had been hoped. In a market econ ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-08
In recent years, the Vrije Universiteit (Free University) Amsterdam has conducted research on human rights in China. As part of this work, carried out by the university’s Cross Cultural Human Rights C ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-04
The wildfire spread of the Omicron variant adds a new element of uncertainty to the global economy. But when it comes to emerging markets, the consensus view is that these countries’ prospects remain ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-04
