It’s a dollar to a cent that Pope Francis’s visit to the United States will be one of the biggest news stories of 2015. Take the sheer number of American Catholics, add the diplomatic skill of the Vat ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-23
There is a simple truth beneath the growing human tragedy of Europe’s refugee crisis and the European Union cannot address the massive influx of exhausted, desperate people in a manner compatible with ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-22
I was a young medical officer in the emergency unit of the Ola During Children’s Hospital in Sierra Leone when I advised the mother of a child with severe malaria to tell a blatant lie. Her daughter M ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-18
Over the past 15 years, the bottled-water industry has experienced explosive growth which shows no sign of slowing. In fact, bottled water -- including everything from “purified spring water” to flavo ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-16
The election of Jeremy Corbyn as the new leader of the British Labor Party is a reminder that life is rich with paradox. Globalization -- the web of travel, technology, trade, and information that bin ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-15
On August 11, China devalued its currency by 2 percent and modestly reformed its exchange-rate system. This was no earth-shattering event, but financial markets responded as if a meteorite had struck ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-14
The debate about whether Greece should leave the eurozone has revived the idea that Germany, and other similarly strong economies, would best serve the rest of the continent if they were the ones to e ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-10
The Islamic State has captured the world’s attention with gruesome videos of beheadings, wanton destruction of antiquities, and skilled use of social media. It has also captured a large part of easter ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-08
At the end of every August, central bankers and financiers from around the world meet in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for the US Federal Reserve’s economic symposium. This year, the participants were greete ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-08
China's current economic woes have largely been viewed through a single lens: the government’s failure to let the market operate. But that perspective has led foreign observers to misinterpret some of ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-07
What impact will China’s slowdown have on the red-hot contemporary art market? That might not seem like an obvious question until one considers that for emerging-market investors, art has become a cri ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-07
If there is a bright side to the turmoil that has roiled the global economy since 2008, it is that not every part of the world has erupted simultaneously. The first blow was the subprime mortgage cris ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-04
To solve the problem of antimicrobial resistance, the world needs not only new drugs but also new behavior – by all seven billion of us. Because of the misuse and overuse of antibiotics, common infect ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-04
The United States has 5 percent of the world’s population and 25 percent of the world’s prison population – about 2.2 million people, five times as many as in 1980. One out of every 100 American adult ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-01
Reports of the death of American power have often been greatly exaggerated. In the 1950s, the Soviet Union was thought to have surpassed the United States; today, the Soviet Union no longer exists. In ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-31
Negotiators from the two Koreas appear to have resolved this month’s crisis, in which South Korea’s use of loudspeakers to broadcast messages across the demilitarized zone spurred threats of war from ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-28
The United Nations’ latest population projections suggest that Japan’s population could fall from 127 million today to 83 million by 2100, with 35 percent of the population then over 65 years old. Eur ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-24
Earlier this month, global financial markets nearly imploded. From East Asia to Western Europe, currencies swooned and equity prices tumbled -- all because of China’s decision to allow a modest devalu ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-20
Secular stagnation is looming worldwide, and China is no exception. Globally, the unprecedented monetary and fiscal stimulus following the 2008 financial crisis has caused debt, equity, and property p ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-18
There is no doubt that Earth is undergoing the sixth mass extinction in its history – the first since the cataclysm that wiped out the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago. According to one recent stud ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-17
