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
In the wake of recent high-profile tech scares, such as a fatality involving an Uber self-driving car and Facebook’s alleged mishandling of users’ personal data, stricter regulation of the industry – ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-04
世界正在經受技術破壞的錘煉，大資料分析、人工智慧、機械人、物聯網、區塊鏈、3D列印和虛擬實境等創新改變了社會和 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機Dirk Helbing2018年03月28日
Following China's "two sessions" – the annual meetings of the national legislature and the top political advisory body – all Western observers, it seems, are discussing the removal of the two-term lim ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-27
經過5個月的政治僵局，德國社會民主黨（SPD，社民黨）終於決定跟基督教民主聯盟（CDU，基民盟）及其姊妹政黨基 ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 彙編選輯Sophia Besch2018年03月24日
The world is being battered by technological disruption, as innovations such as big data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, the Internet of Things, blockchain, 3D printing, and virtu ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-16
The decade since the global financial crisis has been tumultuous, to say the least. True, no great war has erupted, and we have more or less avoided the mistakes of the Great Depression, which led in ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-14
In recent weeks, Western media commentators have focused extensively on the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) decision to abolish presidential term limits, which will allow Xi Jinping to remain in powe ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-13
Predictions that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will fail typically elicit a broader defense of the underlying blockchain technology. Yes, the argument goes, over half of all "initial coin offerin ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-06
Most economic forecasters have largely shrugged off recent advances in artificial intelligence (for example, the quantum leap demonstrated by DeepMind’s self-learning chess program last December), see ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-05
