Economists across the political spectrum have long advocated an increase in infrastructure investment in the United States. Now, Congress is debating infrastructure spending packages that would secure ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-10
This year includes big anniversaries in the history of the international monetary order. August 15 marked 50 years since US President Richard Nixon “closed the gold window”; and on September 21, it wi ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-09
The upsurge of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in the United States serves as a bitter reminder that the pandemic is not over. The global economy will not return to normal until the disea ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-08
The regulatory crackdown on China’s online education sector in August has triggered concerns that other industries could also come under the government’s radar. This has caused a sell-off in Chinese e ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-07
Quoting a global study, the Department of Health pointed out that there are an estimated 13.7 million new cases of stroke around the world every year. The number of cases has been rising in recent yea ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-06
I have been warning for several months that the current mix of persistently loose monetary, credit, and fiscal policies will excessively stimulate aggregate demand and lead to inflationary overheating ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-03
In 1987, Alan Greenspan was appointed by Republican President Ronald Reagan to chair the US Federal Reserve Board of Governors, succeeding Paul Volcker. Eight years later, President Bill Clinton, a De ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-02
越南製造加工出口(00422) 自願性公告越南仁澤生產設施在 COVID-19 於越南最近發展下的進一步最新營 ...全文
Throughout 2020 and into early 2021, there was hope that with some luck and enough vaccines, it would be possible to end the COVID-19 pandemic in a quick and decisive manner. By this summer, it became ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-01
Four years ago, we argued that the rise of electric vehicles (EVs) would upend both the auto industry and the oil market. As with the rapid displacement of horses by motor vehicles in the United State ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-01
The rise in COVID-19 cases in the US, the drop in indicators such as restaurant bookings or passengers passing through airports, plus the plunge of the August Michigan consumer confidence index have r ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-31
We live in an age of systemic gridlock, policy chaos, and sudden-shock failures. How is it possible that Afghan security forces – built and trained by the United States military at a cost of $83 billi ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-31
Asia’s booming economic growth and prosperity of the past few decades has produced countless wealthy individuals and families. According to Capgemini’s 2021 World Wealth Report, the number of high-net ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-31
Whilst the Government’s COVID-19 Vaccination Programme is in full swing, Phase I clinical trials VectorFlu™ ONE, the world’s first COVID-19 nasal vaccine developed by HKU Department of Microbiology in ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-31
