With interest rates on government debt at multi-decade lows, a number of leading economists have argued that almost every advanced economy can allow debt to drift up toward Japanese levels (over 150 p ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-09
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two of this year’s recipients of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, are the latest among leading economists to remind us that gross domestic product is a ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-09
假設英國脫離歐盟，那麼下一屆政府就需要開始漫長而艱辛的談判，來與其他國家和地區建立新關係。英國將面臨一些艱難抉 ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 彙編選輯Ngaire Woods2019年12月07日
There is no longer any denying that democracy is at risk worldwide. Many people doubt that democracy is working for them, or that it is working properly at all. Elections don’t seem to yield real-worl ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-05
Our billionaire problem is getting worse. Any market-oriented economy creates opportunities for new fortunes to be built, including through innovation. More innovation is likely to take place where fe ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-02
As world leaders gather in Madrid for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25), they must address more than future targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. They must also address the ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-29
The "bicycle theory" used to be a metaphor for international trade policy. Just as standing still on a bicycle is not an option – one must keep moving forward or else fall over – so it was said that t ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-28
Nearly six months after they began, the protests in our city have reached fever pitch. On one particularly devastating day earlier this month, police fired more than 1,500 rounds of tear gas, a police ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-27
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the central bankers’ club in Basel, Switzerland, recently conducted an in-depth evaluation of the unconventional monetary policies that have become the no ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-21
This past May and August, escalations in the trade and technology conflict between the United States and China rattled stock markets and pushed bond yields to historic lows. But that was then: since t ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-21
The climate crisis and the 2008 financial crisis are two sides of the same coin. Both were born of the same toxic feature of the world’s prevailing economic model: the practice of discounting the futu ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-15
At 3.6 percent, unemployment in the United States remains near its lowest level since the late 1960s. There are even signs that people who had previously dropped out of the labor force are being attra ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-15
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was at least half right when he recently told the United States Congress that there is no US monopoly on regulation of next-generation payments technology. You may not lik ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-12
Since the end of World War II, the United States dollar has been at the heart of international finance and trade. Over the decades, and despite the many ups and downs of the global economy, the dollar ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-11
Plastics have become a hot topic. News stories about plastic on beaches and in the oceans abound, and policymakers have begun to respond with bans or limitations on plastic bags and single-use plastic ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-07
We are currently living through the most dramatic technological and economic transformation in the history of mankind. We are also witnessing declining support for capitalism around the world. Are the ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-07
透過堵塞道路的不合作運動，要求政府正視問題的抗爭手法漸在國際間流行，圖中是柏林波茨坦廣場，示威者橫臥路中，阻斷 ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 彙編選輯Peter Singer2019年11月02日
A cloud of gloom hovered over the International Monetary Fund’s annual meeting this month. With the global economy experiencing a synchronized slowdown, any number of tail risks could bring on an outr ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-29
On October 1, the People’s Republic of China celebrated the 70th anniversary of its founding with impressive military and civilian parades meant to showcase the extraordinary progress the country has ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-29
英國歷時已久的脫歐過程又有新章。但英國首相約翰遜是已經成竹在胸，有一份新的、對英國更有利的脫歐協議──還是他僅 ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 彙編選輯Mark Malloch-Brown2019年10月26日
