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
隨着美國總統特朗普開始對在美國——墨西哥邊界建造他所謂的「美麗圍牆」進行招標，他的政府也正着手通過再次就《北美 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機Laura Tyson2017年04月07日
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
今天，在冷戰落幕了四分一個世紀之後，西方和俄羅斯又再次爆發了衝突。但這一次，至少在一方面，衝突更加明確地涉及地 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機Joseph E. Stiglitz2017年04月06日
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
