Since the April 27 summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un, US President Donald Trump has sought, unsurprisingly, to portray himself as the maste ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-02
For policymakers anywhere, the best way to make decisions is to base them on evidence, however imperfect the available data may be. But what should leaders do when facts are scarce or non-existent? ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-02
As the risk of a US-China trade war mounts, creating a geopolitically neutral and fair monetary system has become increasingly urgent. The shift from a unipolar to a multipolar world order has not bee ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-30
英美法3國聯軍發射過百枚導彈夷平敍利亞3座化武設施後,美國總統特朗普在Twitter上說,這次任務完成得很完美 ...全文
In 2015, United Nations member states came together and committed to achieving a comprehensive and universal set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) spanning all dimensions of economic and soci ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-25
On a recent holiday in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, I couldn’t resist thinking about these countries’ economic potential and ongoing policy challenges. After all, in 2005, my Goldman Sachs colleagues ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-23
幾乎每周都會傳出新的反面烏托邦寓言,預測會爆發由技術導致的大規模失業現象。隨着人工智能(AI)和機械人技術進步 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機Laura Tyson Lenny Mendonca2018年04月23日
印度──太平洋地區的安全形勢日新月異。這個區域不但有全球增長速度最快的經濟體,亦有全球最快的軍費和海軍戰鬥力增 ...全文
A decade after the global financial crisis, policymakers worldwide are still assessing how best to prevent bank failures from tanking the economy again. Two recent publications – one from the US Depar ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-18
Before the threat of a US-China trade war arose, surging stock markets and corporate profits had obscured the fact that the global economic system is under existential stress. Global financial stabili ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-17
A week rarely goes by without a new dystopian prediction about technologically driven mass unemployment. As artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic technologies advance faster than even their own dev ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-17
In February, Forbes published its first-ever list of cryptocurrencies’ richest people. The top ten were each worth around US$1 billion, while the wealthiest – an American blockchain innovator named Ch ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-16
Europe has a decision to make. It can stand by as nationalism and authoritarianism flourish from the United States (with Donald Trump's "America First" approach) to China (which is moving from a singl ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-11
Since the Great Recession of 2007-2009, most economists have begun to regard finance as a key driver of the business cycle. But the precise dynamics are not yet fully understood. For example, the Univ ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-10
The trade skirmish between the United States and China on steel, aluminum, and other goods is a product of US President Donald Trump’s scorn for multilateral trade arrangements and the World Trade Org ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-09
Now that the world is facing a trade war and the growing possibility that the West could find itself in a real war, we would do well to reconsider the lessons of the interwar period. Many of today’s e ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-09
美國總統特朗普和北韓領導人金正恩去年就像幼稚園學生般,指罵對方是「在進行自殺任務的火箭人」,以及「精神錯亂的美 ...全文
March 29 marked exactly one year since British Prime Minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon, thus launching the formal two-year legal process by which the United Kingdom will ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-04
As China and the United States engage in their latest trade tussle, most economists take it as given that China will achieve global economic supremacy in the long run, no matter what happens now. Afte ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-04
US President Donald Trump’s recent cabinet shakeup – with former CIA Director Mike Pompeo replacing Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State and foreign-policy hardliner John Bolton replacing H.R. McMaster ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-04