There is no doubt about it: the outcome of Germany’s recent federal election is as important as it is remarkable. The parties that have dominated German politics for years – the Social Democrats (SPD) ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-04
Few pieces of modern hardware have inspired as much excitement as the drone. While non-military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were initially marketed as purely recreational gadgets, it has not taken ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-03
幾乎沒有哪種現代硬體能像無人機那樣令人們興奮異常。雖然非軍用無人機(UAVs)最初被當作純粹的娛樂用品上市銷售 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機Carlo Ratti2017年10月02日
Fifteen years after George W. Bush declared that Iraq, Iran, and North Korea formed “an axis of evil,” Donald Trump, in his maiden address to the United Nations, denounced Iran and North Korea in simi ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-29
During most of 2017, the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index (VIX) has been at the lowest levels of the last decade. Recently, the VIX dipped below nine, even lower than in March 2007, jus ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-26
Next month, when finance ministers and central bank governors from more than 180 countries gather in Washington, DC, for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, they ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-20
The world's refugee crisis is most often measured in numbers. But for young refugees missing out on an education, the crisis can also be tracked by an irreversible metric: the passage of time. Of the ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-18
自2016年夏季以來,全球經濟一直處於適度擴張期,增長速度也逐漸加快。但其中沒有抬頭向上的一個指標(至少在發達 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機Nouriel Roubini2017年09月16日
Hurricane Harvey has left in its wake upended lives and enormous property damage, estimated by some at US$150-180 billion. But the storm that pummeled the Texas coast for the better part of a week als ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-11
In the United States today, with partisan polarization at record levels, there is still at least one policy goal on which there is broad consensus, not only among Republicans and Democrats, but also a ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-08
As a candidate, Donald Trump insisted on one signature issue above all: the United States will build a wall along its border with Mexico, and Mexico will pay for it. Seven months after taking office, ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-04
In 1968, gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson mused about "this Death of the American Dream thing." But what was this thing called the American Dream? What made it uniquely American? For some, the Drea ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-29
過去幾年,新聞自由形勢不利。波蘭、匈牙利和土耳其政府愈來愈走向極權,和巴爾幹半島國家、中國和俄羅斯的領導人一樣 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機Anya Schiffrin2017年08月24日
At the start of 2017, China announced that it would invest US$360 billion in renewable energy by 2020 and scrap plans to build 85 coal-fired power plants. In March, Chinese authorities reported that t ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-22
The US is in the midst of a political meltdown, unable to manage a domestic economic agenda or a coherent foreign policy. The White House is in turmoil; Congress is paralyzed; and the world is looking ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-14
The Brexit debate is an endless source of mirth for anyone with a dark sense of humor. My own favorite quote is from Michael Gove, currently Britain's environment secretary. Just prior to the June 201 ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-14
Over the next few months, the 12,000 employees based at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California will complete their move to an extravagant new campus. The “Spaceship”, covering 2.8 million squar ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-09
According to the United Nations, sometime around 2050, the planet’s human population will be close to 10 billion, a threshold that will stress many of the world’s most important systems, especially ag ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-04
Although America’s right-wing plutocrats may disagree about how to rank the country’s major problems – for example, inequality, slow growth, low productivity, opioid addiction, poor schools and deteri ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-31
在發展中國家和發達國家的一些社區,最近幾年出現了一股子虛烏有的質疑疫苗之風,這已經成為全球公共衞生進步最嚴重威 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機Michailidou Kennedy2017年07月26日