As we enter the last quarter of 2019 (and of the decade), cyclical indicators point to a slowing world economy amid wide-ranging structural challenges. There are plenty of issues to keep one up at nig ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-19
The world’s food supply is under threat. That was the stark warning contained in a recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on climate change and land. The signs are already ubiq ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-18
約翰遜實現了成為英國首相的終身夢想，而英國脫歐的悲喜劇也將達到高潮。歐盟其他國家對這部悲喜劇的恐懼之情溢於言表 ...全文
When world leaders gather in New York later this month for the annual United Nations General Assembly meetings, they will have much to discuss besides climate change and sustainable development. In pa ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-12
With economic sentiment in the eurozone worsening rapidly, the European Central Bank is widely expected to announce a robust package of additional stimulus measures at its next meeting on Sept. 12. Bu ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-10
瑞典氣候真相傳播者通貝里（Greta Thunberg）正乘坐一艘零排放遊艇啟程往美國，以期在世界另一個地方（ ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 彙編選輯Erik Berglof2019年09月07日
A monetary policy regime centered on quantitative easing (QE) and zero or even negative interest rates has created an extraordinarily permissive environment for politicians of a certain disposition. T ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-05
The best way to think about the United Kingdom's political predicament and presumed imminent exit from the European Union is to read the Slough House spy novel series by Mick Herron (the sixth insta ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-02
The Brexit “Leave” campaign has been billed as an effort to “take back control” by restoring “sovereignty” to the United Kingdom’s Parliament. It is thus deeply ironic that one of the first moves of t ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-02
Since China regained sovereignty over Hong Kong on July 1, 1997, the city has prospered economically, but festered politically. Now, one of the world’s richest cities is engulfed by protests, which ha ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-28
There are three negative supply shocks that could trigger a global recession by 2020. All of them reflect political factors affecting international relations, two involve China, and the United States ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-23
Nowadays, when people ask me how I am, I answer, jokingly, that I’m doing great, so long as I ignore Donald Trump’s presidency in the United States, Brexit, the crisis of the United Kingdom’s major po ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-14
In the new world wrought by US President Donald Trump, where one shock follows another, there is never time to think through fully the implications of the events with which we are bombarded. In late ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-12
The trade war between the United States and China is heating up again, with US President Donald Trump abruptly announcing plans to impose a 10 percent tariff on the US$300 billion worth of imports fro ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-12
前不久日本首相安倍晉三招待到訪的美國總統特朗普時節目豐富，只是有點華而不實。北韓則不同，她最近不斷向東海進行了 ...全文
To understand where the Chinese economy is headed, it is important to understand the wider context surrounding Chinese debates about what the future holds under President Xi Jinping. The centenary of ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-08
As technological innovation transforms our economies, workers all over the world are doing whatever it takes – whether crossing borders, changing jobs, or starting businesses – for a chance to thrive. ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-07
As the nominee to succeed European Central Bank President Mario Draghi in November, Christine Lagarde may be hoping that her job will be somewhat easier than that of her predecessor. Yet the opposite ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-05
Economic growth in the United States was just 2.5 percent in 2018 and, according to the latest “advance” estimate, may have slowed to only 2.1 percent in the second quarter of 2019. The economy is gr ...More
EJ Insight2019-08-01
