What a difference two years make. In 2021, when interest rates were near zero in the United States and the United Kingdom and slightly negative in the eurozone and Japan, the consensus was that they w ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-16
一名跳傘員從飛機跳下後,發現降落傘無法打開。在下降途中,一架滑翔傘飛過,架駛員問他情況如何。那個正處於自由落下 ...全文
名家論壇Project Syndicate2023年07月27日
A skydiver leaps out of an airplane and discovers that his parachute will not open. On his way down, he encounters a hang glider who asks him how he is doing. The free-falling man shouts back, “Okay, ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-18
美國政府債務的長期可持續性,再次成為人們關注的焦點。但原因並不是人為造成的債務上限危機——該危機已經在5月底得 ...全文
名家論壇Project Syndicate2023年07月03日
一場1200年來最嚴重的特大乾旱,已經肆虐美國西部二十年,助長了野火,加劇了該地區長期水資源短缺。隨着全球氣溫 ...全文
名家論壇Project Syndicate2023年06月09日
A megadrought – the worst in 1,200 years – has been ravaging the American West for two decades, fueling wildfires and exacerbating the region’s chronic water shortages. As global temperatures continue ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-30
世界正處於債務危機之中。最近有份報告估計,有61個新興市場和發展中經濟體——佔國際貨幣基金組織(IMF)成員國 ...全文
名家論壇Project Syndicate2023年05月10日
The world is in the midst of a debt crisis. A recent report estimates that 61 emerging-market and developing economies – nearly one-third of the International Monetary Fund’s member countries – are fa ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-28
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last month seemed to bode ill for the global clean-energy race. Just as recently enacted US investment packages and the rest of President Joe Biden’s climate dreams ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-18
50年前(1973年)的這個3月,布雷頓森林體系的固定滙率安排被拋棄,幾個全球主要貨幣——包括美元、英鎊、日圓 ...全文
名家論壇Project Syndicate2023年04月13日
50年前(1973年)的3月,布雷頓森林體系的固定滙率安排被拋棄,幾個全球主要貨幣──包括美元、英鎊、日圓和德 ...全文
今日信報時事評論Jeffrey Frankel2023年03月29日
Fifty years ago this month, in March 1973, the Bretton Woods arrangement of fixed exchange rates was abandoned, and the world’s major currencies – including the US dollar, pound, yen, and Deutsche Mar ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-21
當可持續投資運動在幾年前進入主流時,它在試圖說服管理人員和股東,將注意力從短期利潤轉向環境、社會和管理(Env ...全文
名家論壇Project Syndicate2023年03月14日
When it burst into the mainstream several years ago, the sustainable investment movement met relatively little resistance as it sought to persuade managers and shareholders to shift their focus from s ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-27
美國已達到31.4萬億美元的法定債務上限。華盛頓眼看就要因為提高債務上限問題面臨又一次黨派攤牌,國會共和黨尋求 ...全文
名家論壇Project Syndicate2023年02月02日
美國已達到31.4萬億美元的法定債務上限。華盛頓眼看就要因為提高債限問題再次面臨黨派攤牌,共和黨尋求民主黨共識 ...全文
今日信報時事評論Jeffrey Frankel2023年01月31日
The United States has reached its statutory debt limit of $31.4 trillion. As Washington gears up for yet another partisan showdown over whether to raise the debt ceiling, with congressional Republican ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-24
那些世界知名經濟學家們,在2022年的大部分時間裏,都在努力說服自己:如果全球經濟還沒有陷入衰退,那麼它肯定是 ...全文
名家論壇Project Syndicate2023年01月13日
The world’s leading economists spent most of 2022 convincing themselves that, if the global economy was not already in a recession, it was about to fall into one. But with the year’s end, the global s ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-28
當前國際秩序所面臨的最重要任務,或許是執行各國對溫室氣體排放的限制,例如2015年巴黎協定中談判的那些。碳邊界 ...全文
名家論壇Project Syndicate2022年12月16日