French President Emmanuel Macron, once viewed as the quintessential centrist, has lately been labeled a right-wing politician. He has, after all, eliminated the wealth tax, introduced greater labor-ma ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-23
Being poor is a highly shameful experience, degrading one’s dignity and sense of self-worth. While the manifestations and causes of poverty differ, the humiliation that accompanies it is universal. Re ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-21
Writing about oil prices is always risky. In January 2015, I suggested that oil prices would not continue to fall, and even predicted that they would “finish the year higher than they were when it beg ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-21
When Donald Trump was elected US president a year ago, some said the end of the Paris climate agreement was nigh. Yet, as the latest round of global climate talks in Bonn, Germany, has shown, the worl ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-20
The hurricanes that pummeled the Caribbean, Texas, and Florida this year left highways submerged, homes and businesses demolished, and lives lost. The floodwaters have since receded, but the images of ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-20
在最近一場加州大學柏克萊分校舉辦的會議中，愛麗絲．理夫林（Alice Rivlin）對美國經濟政策制定的未來表 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機J. Bradford DeLong2017年11月20日
許多右翼民粹主義者的共同點是某種獨特形式的自怨自艾：他們感覺受到自由媒體、學者、知識分子和「專家」的迫害──簡 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機Ian Buruma2017年11月20日
"Fearsome Plague Epidemic Strikes Madagascar." That recent New York Times headline might sound like the synopsis of a horror movie. The epidemic gripping Madagascar is not just any plague, and it cert ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-16
According to the Harvard economist Dani Rodrik, it is impossible to have full national sovereignty, democracy, and globalization simultaneously. The concept of a “political trilemma of the world econo ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-15
No one should die from a preventable disease. Yet preventable diseases kill two million children every year, many of whom are too poor to afford proper treatment. The majority of these deaths are eith ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-15
Donald Trump’s presidency in the United States has turned mining – and the coal industry in particular – into a political cause célèbre over the last year. In June, during his first White House cabine ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-14
With the United Nations’ climate change conference underway in Bonn, Germany, rising global temperatures are once again at the top of the world’s agenda. But why care about the increase in temperature ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-13
It has been one year since Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, and America’s democratic institutions are clearly under strain. A mere 20 percent of Americans now trust the federal ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-13
In early October, shortly after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter that his company could, given the opportunity, rebuild the island’s electrical grid us ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-10
Imagine a country where some 90 percent of the population is covered by health insurance, more than 90 percent of those with HIV are on a consistent drug regime, and 93 percent of children are vaccina ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-09
The transatlantic alliance – which for decades has underpinned global stability, fortified democracy, and safeguarded the West as we know it – is under severe strain, and risks terminal decline. US Pr ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-09
Solutions to the climate crisis are often associated with big conferences, and the next two weeks will no doubt bring many "answers". Some 20,000 delegates have now descended on Bonn, Germany, for the ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-08
After multiple failed attempts to “repeal and replace” the 2010 Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), US President Donald Trump’s administration now hopes to achieve its first legislative victory with a ma ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-07
US President Donald Trump is spending nearly two weeks in Asia, visiting Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Putting China at the center of the trip makes sense, because it consti ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-07
I have always been a profound admirer of Spanish democracy, but especially since February 23, 1981. On that dramatic day, Colonel Antonio Tejero attempted a coup d’état against the young democratic re ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-03
