A few months back I sat down with a couple of friends from a leading university in Hong Kong – and we had a terrific, electrifying chat about how we could bring Effective Altruism (EA) to the city. Ma ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-03
Technology will save us! No, it won’t! Whenever the climate-policy debate addresses specific economic sectors, potential carbon-abatement technologies, or energy strategy, the same fundamental questio ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-01
Until fairly recently, Chinese President Xi Jinping touted his zero-COVID policy as proof that authoritarian one-party states like China are better equipped to deal with pandemics (or any other crisis ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-18
These cold winter nights, electric lights flood a site of 213,000 square metres in Kumamoto prefecture, western Japan. Workers and building machines are labouring 24 hours a day to complete the first ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-16
In the face of Europe’s energy crisis, political and economic leaders in Italy, the European Union’s third-largest economy, are confronting two opposing forces. On one hand, there is fear of change, w ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-21
Many have dismissed last month’s COP27 climate conference as a failure, owing to the lack of progress on pledges made at the COP26 summit last year, and to the absence of clear commitments to phase ou ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-20
In his narration for the Netflix series Our Great National Parks, former US President Barack Obama describes a sloth as harboring “an entire micro-kingdom” in his fur. “Researching him will help fight ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-09
The Oxbridge interviews process can seem daunting – and there are many urban legends perpetrated in relation to how they are conducted, for what exactly they are conducted, and the calibre of candidat ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-25
Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget, which crashed the pound and ended her tenure after just 44 days, has quickly become a cautionary tale for policymakers around the worl ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-22
If there is one issue that has taken center stage at this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), it is money. Delegates, climate activists, and the rapidly increasing number of priva ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-18
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has thrown the European Union into yet another full-blown economic and political crisis. But while the war is the immediate cause of soaring gas, fuel, and electricity pri ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-17
The big lesson of the past 60 years of US economic policy, according to former vice chair of the US Federal Reserve and current Princeton University economist Alan S. Blinder’s new book, A Monetary an ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-04
Never have the figures looked so good for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). It has just reported net profits of NT$280.87 billion for the third quarter of this year, a 79.7 per cent i ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-03
Never have the figures looked so good for Taiwan Semico ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2022年11月03日
In October 2021, two tractors with a large chain stretched between them cleared more than 2,000 hectares of forest in the Brazilian Cerrado, one of the world’s most biodiverse areas. Tragically, such ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-31
The answer seems obvious. After all, it has everything ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2022年10月22日
The answer seems obvious. After all, it has everything to do with the economic strength and political endurance of the state, surely. The more resilient the economy, the more capable it is at deliveri ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-20
In August, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury made it illegal for entities to trade cryptocurrency through a platform known as Tornado Cash. The U.S. go ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-05
