In 1987, Alan Greenspan was appointed by Republican President Ronald Reagan to chair the US Federal Reserve Board of Governors, succeeding Paul Volcker. Eight years later, President Bill Clinton, a De ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-02
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the end the Bretton Woods system, when US President Richard Nixon suspended the US dollar’s convertibility into gold and allowed it to float. We are also appro ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-19
1980年5月，南韓光州市的學生反抗不得人心的軍政府。數百名學生遭受命鎮壓起義的傘兵所殘忍殺害。軍政府領袖將軍 ...全文
今日信報時事評論Ian Buruma2021年08月11日
The world is facing two disasters that are making the COVID-19 crisis doubly worse than it ought to be. The first is the rise of the Delta variant, which is twice as contagious and 1.5-2 times deadlie ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-06
Hong Kong’s economy is showing signs of recovery as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic eases. The unemployment rate in Hong Kong fell to 5.5% in the second quarter, from the record high of 7.2% since ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-03
China is stuck between a fossil fuel-dependent past and a future powered by renewable energy. The country today generates 53% of the world’s coal-fired power. At the same time, it is the world’s leadi ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-03
Widespread social media availability has enabled the rise of anti-science thinking that threatens to undermine public safety. You see these in anti-vaxxers, flat Earth believers, and all sorts of weir ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-27
On May 14, 1962, the agriculture commissioner of Montana, Lowell Purdy, launched what would become one of the century’s great platitudes. “If we can put a man on the Moon,” he declared, seven years be ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-26
In a major change of policy, Japan has decided to defend Taiwan in the event of an attack by China. This reverses a policy of 49 years, since Tokyo recognised Beijing and cut its diplomatic ties with ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-05
美國前總統特朗普旗下集團的財務總監（CFO）魏塞爾伯格（Allen Weisselberg）周四被控協助公司高 ...全文
The current disconnect between market calm and underlying social tensions is perhaps nowhere more acute than in Latin America. The question is how much longer this glaring dissonance can continue. For ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-02
How does former US President Donald Trump still command the Republican Party’s complete allegiance? Everyone knows he has terrible judgment and a vindictive, petty personality. Even Trump’s own daught ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-02
《華爾街日報》引述消息人士稱，美國紐約曼哈頓地區檢察官萬斯(Cyrus Vance)將於周四，入稟法院控告前總 ...全文
Global health care equities troughed in April after a tough year. The drop started in 2020 as seen in the sharp correction in relative price-to-earnings ratios, from a 16% premium in March 2020 to a 1 ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-30
In their latest communiqué, NATO leaders declared that China presents “systemic challenges to the rules-based international order.” The response from China’s mission to the European Union was clear: “ ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-24
Investors like to call the market crash of Q1 2020 an “exogenous” event, a “black swan” – perhaps another way of saying that at least this time, it’s not anyone’s fault. That crisis had a profound dis ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-21
