If you were a Briton who had been stuck in Antarctica for the past year and a half, you might be forgiven for wishing you had stayed put. The decisions taken during your absence by British politicians ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-14
Every century, it seems, has its “age”. The Renaissance, from a philosophical perspective, has been called the Age of Adventure. The seventeenth-century Age of Reason was followed by the Age of Enligh ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-13
One of the more fascinating developments in the seven months since US President Donald Trump was elected has been the trajectory of the US dollar, relative to other major currencies. After soaring in ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-13
Last month, Chinese President Xi Jinping presided over a heavily orchestrated "Belt and Road" forum in Beijing. The two-day event attracted 29 heads of state, including Russia's Vladimir Putin, and 1, ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-13
Advances in artificial intelligence and robotics are powering a new wave of automation, with machines matching or outperforming humans in a fast-growing range of tasks, including some that require com ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-09
Many commentators have described Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the French presidential election as a triumph for the center right, because he received votes that otherwise would have gone to the scanda ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-09
Africa’s enormous economic potential is not news. But, until now, policymakers around the world have not successfully defined the political and economic steps that must be taken to enable Africa to re ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-08
President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate agreement is not just dangerous for the world; it is also sociopathic. Without remorse, Trump is willfully inflicting ha ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-08
Between 2014 and 2016, Middle Eastern oil-exporting countries’ revenues fell by an average of more than one-third – or 15 percent of GDP – and their current-account surpluses have swung violently to d ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-08
For the past two years, the global economy has been growing, but it has swung between periods of rapid expansion and deceleration. During this period, two episodes, in particular, caused US and global ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-06
Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the French presidential election on May 7 triggered a surge of optimism about the future of the European Union, and the eurozone in particular. This is partly because Macr ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-05
Donald Trump has thrown a hand grenade into the global economic architecture that was so painstakingly constructed in the years after the end of World War II. The attempted destruction of this rules-b ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-05
今天的歐盟需要拯救和徹底的革新。拯救歐盟必須放在第一位，因為歐洲正面臨生存威脅。但是，正如法國總統馬克龍在其競 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機George Soros2017年06月02日
Emmanuel Macron’s election to the French presidency provides the European Union with an opportunity to move past the internal conflicts that have hastened its disintegration. Rather than standing excl ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-31
The world has no shortage of pressing issues. There are 1.6 billion people living in acute poverty; an estimated 780 million adults are illiterate. Serious problems are not confined to the developing ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-31
Donors like the World Bank and the World Health Organization often urge developing countries to invest in national health systems. But while rushing to construct clinics and other medical facilities i ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-29
The landslide re-election of Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, reflects the by now familiar pattern of continuity and change that has characterized Iran’s major elections over the past two decades. Fo ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-25
俄羅斯干預2016年美國總統大選，並被懷疑入侵法國總統馬克龍的競選伺服器，不會令任何人感到吃驚，因為普京總統理 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機Joseph S. Nye, Jr.2017年05月24日
對美國總統特朗普來說，衡量一國經濟優勢的指標是其經常專案餘額──即商品和服務的出口減去進口。當然，這一思想是最 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機Barry Eichengreen2017年05月19日
Two Chinese initiatives – “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) and “International Production Cooperation” – encapsulate President Xi Jinping’s views on overseas investment. Both slogans are supported by develo ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-17
