At the start of this year, things seemed to be looking up for the global economy. True, growth had slowed a bit in 2019: from 2.9 percent to 2.3 percent in the United States, and from 3.6 percent to 2 ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-25
South Korea is all the rage these days. Earlier this month, Parasite, from the South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Having read the reviews and seen the film a ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-21
In my 2010 book, Crisis Economics, I defined financial crises not as the “black swan” events that Nassim Nicholas Taleb described in his eponymous bestseller, but as “white swans.” According to Taleb, ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-18
One of the hallmarks of an effective foreign policy is that it runs in the background, neither loud nor especially visible. Governments must urgently adopt such an approach to stem the growing global ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-17
事關美國總統特朗普應否被趕下台的嚴重政治衝突，彰顯出美國憲法存在令人警惕的弱點。200多年來，美國人都依靠這部 ...全文
Sinn Féin’s success in Ireland’s Feb. 8 general election, where it headed the poll, has come as a shock, owing to the party’s historic ties to the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and that organization’s a ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-12
內地新型冠狀病毒（2019-nCoV）肺炎疫情所引發的恐慌，起源於中國一個超大型城市，也是國內主要交通樞紐之一 ...全文
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On Jan. 15, US President Donald Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He signed a “phase one” agreement aimed at containing the two countries’ long-running bilateral trade war. But no sooner had the deal ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-29
The role of corporate boards has never been more important, nor subject to as much scrutiny, as it is today. The technological, environmental, geopolitical, and socioeconomic transformations of the pa ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-21
As the world’s business elites trek to Davos for their annual gathering, people should be asking a simple question: Have they overcome their infatuation with US President Donald Trump? Two years ago, ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-20
受鄰近山火的濃煙影響，坎培拉本月曾錄得世界最惡劣空氣質素指數，讀數較官方的危害健康門檻高20倍，而該市近日也經 ...全文
For many firms in emerging and developing economies, emulating the success of the likes of Samsung and Hyundai may seem like an impossible dream. But the rapid economic growth of Japan, South Korea, a ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-17
At the start of a new decade, many commentators are understandably focused on the health of the global economy. Gross domestic product growth this decade most likely will be lower than during the teen ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-17
時為1990年8月5日，薩達姆管治的伊拉克剛入侵並征服整個科威特，當時的美國總統老布殊在白宮南草坪上發言時，發 ...全文
Most people have never heard of the World Trade Organization’s moratorium on customs duties on electronic transmissions. And yet it may be one of the most important trade deals in recent history, give ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-09
There is an overwhelming consensus among scientists that this decade will be the last window for humanity to change the current global trajectory of carbon dioxide emissions so that the world can get ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-07
For a half-century, American corporations (and many others around the world) have embraced shareholder primacy, which holds that the only responsibility of business is to maximize profits. But this pr ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-07
In recent years, fears of a new cold war between the United States and China have been proliferating. But the tensions between the two powers would be better described as a “cool war,” characterized n ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-03
