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名家論壇Project Syndicate2022年09月08日
... lationism may have bought us time at the start of the pandemic; it might have been necessary in face of the vast unknown unknowns during 2020, in relation to the then-underanalysed pathogen. Yet it’s ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-08
... , Theresa May, and Boris Johnson all score postwar records for doing “a bad job as Prime Minister,” with each successive Tory leader rated worse than the previous one. Truss seems to face similar oppr ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-07
... ty.” That may have been an exaggeration, but many believed Snow’s prediction would be justified if a war occurred within a century. In the 1980s, Nuclear Freeze campaigners like Helen Caldicott echoed ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-07
... ooftops – may be a calculated move by Lee to burnish his credentials in Beijing’s eyes. Within Hong Kong, the wide-ranging speech given by Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, on July 1 during Lee’s inaugu ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-06
... nvenience may win again in such cases. A survey found that nearly 70% of 1,000 respondents said that they expected companies to automatically adjust content based on the customers’ online behaviour, m ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-05
... ly, there may come a day when humanity ceases to be useful to Strong AI – but that day is unlikely to arrive so long as we remain innovative and adept in our handling species that are, for one, struct ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-02
... pan. That may be true, despite America being mired in a cold civil war that can have no end as long as former President Donald Trump is in the mix. Eurozone integration, which promises to advance when ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-02
... cials who may be slow to admit mistakes – further undermining their credibility. Transparency is key, especially at a time when peddlers of online misinformation will seize every opportunity to discre ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-31
... ing since May 2020 and move US macro momentum further into negative territory. This does not come out of the blue. Fed policy affects the US cycle through various channels. In the current cycle, one o ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-31
... owed by a mayoral summit in Buenos Aires, the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, and the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Climate negotiators are used to entering such gathe ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-30
... d through May. Most DM bond markets have already priced in substantial rate hikes. Broadly speaking, this would be a natural point for yields to go range bound and wait for either central banks to cat ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-30
... th crises may be so large that finance ministers can no longer assume that national and global health policy, especially risk and preparedness assessments for different shocks, is the exclusive domain ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-29
... any users may not care about privacy at all, instead they treasure the convenience provided by social media and websites more. 2. Not environment friendly: Cryptocurrencies are an important feature of ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-29
... , then we may as well rebrand it Contrarianism. The primary distinction between debate and contrarian punditry, then, is that facts and logic do – in fact – matter, at least in the sense that only tho ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-26
