US President Donald Trump and congressional Republican allies have succeeded in passing their big tax legislation. While it lacks many of the desirable attributes of true tax reform, it amounts to a ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-16
As 2018 begins, things are looking up for the global economy. Over the last six months, growth projections by official institutions like the International Monetary Fund, matched or even exceeded by ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-12
In February 2017, I wrote an optimistic commentary called "The Global Economy’s Surprising Resilience." The piece came as a surprise to those who saw only bleak prospects for Western countries, not ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-12
US President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans had an opportunity – and a responsibility – to reform the US tax code to address three major economic challenges: slowing growth, rising inequal ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-09
Economic growth worldwide picked up in 2017, and the best guess is that the global economy will perform strongly in 2018 as well. At the same time, a rising tide of populism and authoritarianism poses ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-09
Plastics are among the most popular materials in use today. Given the material’s versatility, it is little wonder that some 320 million tons of it are used around the world each year. Indeed, the rece ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-08
去年10月，匈牙利政府向全國400萬個家庭發問卷，詢問對於筆者企圖用穆斯林移民及難民淹沒歐洲的邪惡計劃的意見。 ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 彙編選輯索羅斯 (George Soros)2018年01月06日
Inequality has become a major political preoccupation in the advanced economies – and for good reason. In the United States, according to the recently released World Inequality Report 2018, the share ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-03
Never has a piece of legislation labeled as both a tax cut and a reform been received with as much disapproval and derision as the bill passed by the US Congress and signed into law by President Donal ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-03
發自紐約──從未有一份被貼上減稅和改革標籤的立法，跟美國國會投票通過並由特朗普剛剛在耶誕節前簽署生效那樣收到如 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機Joseph E. Stiglitz2018年01月03日
In late October, the World Health Organization’s regional office for Africa signed an agreement with the United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The aim of the unlikely partnership ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-28
China’s digital economy is a force to be reckoned with. The country now accounts for 42 percent of global e-commerce, boasts one-third of the world’s most successful tech startups, and conducts 11 tim ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-27
After falling for more than a decade, the number of hungry people in the world is rising once again. This year was marked by the worst global food crisis since World War II, with South Sudan, Yemen, S ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-22
We all know how bad tobacco is, that it kills millions of people every year, and that it harms many more. We also know that tobacco companies have consistently lied about how much damage their product ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-20
Last year, three of the world's largest meat companies – JBS, Cargill, and Tyson Foods – emitted more greenhouse gases than France, and nearly as much as some big oil companies. And yet, while energ ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-20
Economic growth is accelerating across most of the world. Yet the world's total gross debt-to-GDP ratio has reached nearly 250 percent, up from 210 percent before the global economic crisis nearly a d ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-19
More than ten years after the global financial crisis, the world economy is finally enjoying a broad-based recovery. Europe and its broader neighborhood are no exception: economic growth in almost eve ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-19
Since its introduction four decades ago, genetic engineering has been a source of high hopes for health, agriculture, and industry. But it has also provoked deep anxiety, not least owing to the labori ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-15
For years after the 2008 financial crisis, policymakers congratulated themselves for having averted a second Great Depression. They had responded to the global recession with the kind of Keynesian fis ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-15
如果金融投資者今年耶誕節要給聖誕老人寫信，他們很可能會祈求延續主導了過去一年的不尋常因素組合：超低的市場波動性 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機Mohamed A. El-Erian2017年12月14日
