As the home of both the Roman Empire and the Renaissance, Italy has long been at the forefront of cultural developments in Europe and Western Eurasia. But it has also long served as an example of pol ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-10
Much has been written about the “future of work,” and much of it makes for gloomy reading. Study after study predicts that automation will upend entire industries and leave millions unemployed. A 2013 ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-10
It’s old news that large segments of society have become deeply unhappy with what they see as “the establishment,” especially the political class. The “Yellow Vest” protests in France, triggered by ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-08
If you ask most central bankers around the world what their plan is for dealing with the next normal-size recession, you would be surprised how many (at least in advanced economies) say “fiscal poli ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-07
The contours of the nineteenth and early twentieth century were defined in part by a series of consequential British foreign policy and economic decisions. As recently as 2007-2009, British policy aff ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-02
Financial markets have finally awoken to the fact that Donald Trump is US president. Given that the world has endured two years of reckless tweets and public statements by the world’s most powerful ma ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-31
一年前,在美國總統特朗普和他的共和黨同志們保駕下,國會通過了大規模削減公司稅,當時,批評《減稅和就業法案》的人 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機J. Bradford DeLong2018年12月31日
隨着比特幣價格從一年前的峰值一路下跌80%,以及更大範圍的加密貨幣市場出現系統性崩潰,「峰值高潮」是否已成明日 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機Kenneth Rogoff2018年12月24日
早前在波蘭卡托維治(Katowice)舉行的氣候峰會,一直被外界視為繼2015年訂立《巴黎協定》的峰會後,影響 ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 彙編選輯馬軍、Caio Koch-Weser2018年12月22日
Financial digitalization – the digital revolution’s system-level transformation of the entire financial ecosystem – could catalyze global efforts to finance sustainable development. According to the ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-18
After World War I ended, Havana emerged as one of the world’s most vibrant cities. During the first half of 1920, rising sugar prices and a favorable global environment meant that credit and finance w ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-17
儘管華為副董事長及首席財務官孟晚舟成功獲保釋,華為事件仍在發酵。中國政府前後逮捕了兩名加拿大籍公民,認為二人可 ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus EJ Watch張倩燁2018年12月15日
The climate conference now underway in Katowice, Poland, has been billed as the most consequential since the 2015 summit, which produced the Paris climate agreement. Amid unprecedented public concern ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-14
The brewing conflict between the United States and China is typical of zero-sum contests among countries, firms, and individuals. The US is acting under the implicit assumption that if China’s GDP wer ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-14
With the price of Bitcoin down 80 percent from its peak a year ago, and the larger cryptocurrency market in systemic collapse, has “peak crypto” already come and gone? Perhaps, but don’t expect to see ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-11
Now is not a good time to be a climate-change denier like US President Donald Trump, given all the recent evidence that the atmosphere is warming faster than expected. On the Friday after Thanksgivi ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-10
The European Union has gained member-state approval for an agreement setting the terms of the United Kingdom’s exit from the bloc. But it is still unclear whether a majority of British parliamentarian ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-05
Just under ten years ago, the International Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress issued its report, Mismeasuring Our Lives: Why GDP Doesn’t Add Up. The title summe ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-04
作為一個中國籍專業人士,做與非洲發展相關的工作,一開始就遇到了「道德困境」:在看到中國在非洲的足跡,聽到非洲人 ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 軟硬中國張倩燁2018年12月01日
When Mark Zuckerberg, the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Facebook, appeared before the European Parliament in May, I suggested to him that he had lost control of his company. As one of the few polit ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-30