Donald Trump’s rise to power in the United States involved more than a little China-bashing. Yet, with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Trump’s Florida estate earlier this month, it seems that ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-27
Brexit has set a hungry cat among the financial pigeons of the City of London. No one yet knows what kind of access to the European Union’s single financial market UK-based firms will have, and Prime ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-26
The rise of anti-globalization political movements and the threat of trade protectionism have led some people to wonder whether a stronger multilateral core for the world economy would reduce the risk ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-25
As the annual spring meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund commence, the world's economic future appears brighter than it has in some time. The international financial institu ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-24
It has been said that statistics are people with the tears washed away. This is a message that attendees of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund spring meetings in Washington, DC, should bea ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-24
In his 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein chose a Muslim linguist, "Dr. Mahmoud", to help the book’s Martian-raised protagonist make the transition to life in th ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-21
Nearly 100 days after US President Donald Trump took office, he and his commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, continue to commit an economic fallacy that first-year economics students learn to avoid. They ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-21
On April 22, scientists from around the world will mark Earth Day by participating in an unprecedented "March for Science". The aim of the march will be to “celebrate and defend science at all levels ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-18
Donald Trump’s comments about China during the US presidential campaign didn’t exactly bolster high hopes for Sino-American relations once he was elected. Trump denounced China for “taking our jobs,” ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-11
US President Donald Trump’s first major legislative goal – to “repeal and replace” the 2010 Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) – has already imploded, owing to Trump and congressional Republicans’ naiv ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-11
Malaria has long been one of the major killer diseases of our age. World Health Organization data show that as much as half of the world’s population is at risk. But roughly 90 percent of malaria case ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-10
European voters, looking at Donald Trump’s chaotic presidency in the United States and the hard road ahead for a post-Brexit Britain, may be turning away from right-wing populists such as Marine Le Pe ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-06
It has been almost a decade since the 2008 financial crisis, and the confrontational politics that emerged in its aftermath remain ubiquitous in the West. But despite similarities between the United S ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-06
US President Donald Trump’s recently released 2018 budget blueprint proposes deep cuts in US foreign aid, prompting a discussion on the role of such spending in improving the health and well-being of ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-05
Former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers recently took exception to current US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s views on artificial intelligence (AI) and related topics. The difference between the ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-05
US President Donald Trump’s domestic economic agenda suffered a major setback last week, when the House Republican leadership decided to withdraw their hastily drafted bill to repeal and replace the A ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-03
Legend holds that King Canute brought his flatterers to the sea to show them that even a king could not command the ocean waves, that the laws of nature are more powerful than the decrees of men. So p ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-03
The relationship between business, politics and the environment is about to become more complicated. As US President Donald Trump’s administration threatens to dismantle vital environmental protection ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-31
One of the most cited statistics about China may well be the number of Chinese who have been lifted out of poverty over the last 35 years. At over 800 million, it is a huge number – and an extraordina ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-29
On March 27, the United Nations will start negotiations on an international treaty to ban nuclear weapons. It will be a milestone marking the beginning of the end of an age of existential peril for hu ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-27
