Last month, I wrote about the growing divide between economic theory and real-world economic conditions, and reminded readers that economics is still a social science, despite whatever loftier ambitio ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-12
The money-laundering scandals keep rolling in, most recently in Estonia, where a subsidiary of Danske Bank reportedly processed some 200 billion euros (US$225 billion) in suspicious payments from arou ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-10
Kirstjen Nielsen’s forced resignation as US Secretary of Homeland Security is no reason to celebrate. Yes, she presided over the forced separation of families at the US border, notoriously housing you ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-10
The “Green New Deal” (GND) proposed by progressives in the United States cannot be achieved in isolation. To tackle climate change and inequality together, all countries will need to agree to new rule ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-10
Dante’s Divine Comedy describes one level of hell (the City of Dis) as “Satan’s wretched city … full of distress and torment terrible”. He could well have been describing many modern-day metropolises. ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-09
As NATO marks the 70th anniversary of its founding, it is confronting a crisis unique in its history. Turkey, a NATO member since 1952, has concluded a deal to purchase an S-400 air defense system fro ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-08
This year, the world commemorates the anniversaries of two key events in the development of the global monetary system. The first is the creation of the International Monetary Fund at the Bretton Wood ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-08
只有走在街道上才能充分欣賞伯利恒的悠久歷史。每年，這座城市都以耶穌降生的卑微馬槽形象深入全球數以百萬計家庭。但 ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 彙編選輯Anton Salman2019年04月06日
The G20 Leaders’ Summit in London on April 2, 2009, is widely regarded as one of the best examples of global cooperation in a generation. Meeting as a group for only the second time, leaders of the wo ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-04
Once upon a time, everyone assumed that there was a single phenomenon called globalization, whereby cross-border flows of financial capital drove innovation, industrialization, development, and trade. ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-03
Displaying a degree of courage and clarity that is difficult to overstate, US senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has taken on Big Tech, including Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple. ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-02
Discussions about climate action nowadays often focus on the largest past and current emitters. But, if one looks to the future, the biggest climate risks and opportunities lie in the more than 60 cou ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-29
When seeking investment capital and seemingly lucrative commercial deals, EU member-state governments do not always consider shared European interests. This has especially been the case with respect t ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-28
In Washington, DC, a bipartisan consensus about China has emerged: the United States is facing a trade-manipulating, authoritarian intellectual-property thief that represents a strategic threat to the ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-27
President Donald Trump has postponed until at least April the supposed deadline for concluding the United States’ current trade negotiations with China. A good outcome for both sides would be reache ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-22
Barring any sudden reversals, Italy will formally endorse China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI) during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Rome this week. Though US President Donald Trump’s a ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-22
Negotiations to resolve the Sino-American trade conflict have so far centered on soybeans, natural gas, and an assortment of commodities and manufactured goods. Yet, an increasingly important compon ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-21
The US Federal Reserve surprised markets recently with a large and unexpected policy change. When the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met in December 2018, it hiked the Fed’s policy rate to 2.25- ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-19
小說有唐吉訶德與風車搏鬥，現實有美國總統特朗普與貿易赤字搏鬥。兩場戰鬥都是荒謬的，但至少唐吉訶德還帶有理想主義 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機Jeffrey D. Sachs2019年03月18日
Though economics aspires to the rigor of the natural sciences, at the end of the day it is still a social science. At no point in the past 40 years has this been more evident than it is now. For decad ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-15
