... triggered by the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, if one adjusts for inflation in the United States and its trading partners, it is already higher. This is happening despite the US recording i ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-02
... for all” by 2030. But the latest SDG report makes for grim reading. “Cascading and interlinked global crises” – including the COVID-19 pandemic, global warming, war, inflation, and polarization – are ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-02
... Research by Chang-Tai Hsieh of the University of Chicago and Enrico Moretti of the University of California, Berkeley have found that restrictions on housing supply in “high productivity cities” in t ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-01
... n machine by which the elite could grab “enough” of the insufficiently sized pie for themselves. Instead, government and politics could finally be directed toward making a truly human world. The post- ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-01
Artificial Intelligence – synthetic entities that possess ‘intelligence’, defined by some to denote the capacity to develop and adhere to complex commands, engage in some form of reasoning processes t ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-01
... followed by the current enhanced version of seven-day centralized quarantine followed by three days of home? Now, what if one can stay in The Peninsula or Mandarin for reverse isolation before going ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-31
... populated by Japan – a move that would have enraged China by reinforcing Japan’s territorial claim with new “facts on the ground.” After the Tokyo government had mobilized large donations toward the p ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-31
... e trusted by just 41% of Americans, with local health departments trusted by 44%, and the same poll shows that positive ratings of the public health system declined from 43% to 34% between 2009 and 20 ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-31
... ly driven by the surging spread between US yields and the rest of the world. Typically, a sharp rise in the US dollar precedes a downturn in the cycle, with the 10% USD appreciation over the past year ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-31
... lustrated by the reactions of Hong Kong residents to th ...全文
... followed by a mayoral summit in Buenos Aires, the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, and the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Climate negotiators are used to entering such ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-30
... rgone GDP by 2024. Lockdowns that would have been unimaginable only a few years ago have resulted in more than 1.5 billion students being affected by school and university closures, implying severe lo ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-29
The next-generation internet or Web 3.0 has become a hot topic due to the large inflow of funds into related industries in recent years. It targets the drawbacks of personal information being sold by ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-29
... anctioned by the West for doing business there. An increasing volume of the bilateral trade is conducted in renminbi. Russia has now become the third largest offshore trading centre for the RMB, after ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-29
... elled out by those who control the zeitgeist. Individuals have little to no say over what they believe in, but are taught – in elite schools or elsewhere – that they must believe it with all the convi ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-26
... nd debate by scientists themselves. But that is exactly how it should be. As the philosopher John Dewey argued in the early twentieth century, science proceeds not as a single truth or set of truths, ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-26
... eat time” by a prominent UK paper; another praised them as they “spun and twirled” to Whitney Houston – brilliant stuff. Or, indeed, remember that one time that Cameron took a guest of the highest hon ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-26
... n bidders by the government and new curbs on gambling imposed by Beijing. So the industry does not expect new bidders outside the six. For them, the motive is that, without a new contract, they will f ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-25
... n bidders by the government and new curbs on gambling i ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2022年08月25日
