美國民主黨剛剛在芝加哥舉行的黨代會上貢獻一場精采絕倫的演出。這場表演內容應有盡有:華麗的音樂表演、振奮人心的演 ...全文
今日信報時事評論Ian Buruma2024年09月07日
民主黨剛在芝加哥舉行黨代會上演一場精彩絕倫演出。這場表演內容應有盡有:華麗音樂表演、振奮人心演講、虔誠宗教儀式 ...全文
名家論壇Project Syndicate2024年08月30日
美國聯邦儲備委員會花了很大力氣控制通脹,7月的通脹率也自2021年以來首次降至3%以下,不幸的是該機構發現自己 ...全文
今日信報時事評論魯賓尼、Stephen Miran2024年08月24日
When Chinese President Xi Jinping met with US President Joe Biden last fall, some interpreted it as a return to engagement. In fact, it heralded only a minor détente, not a major change in policy. The ...More
EJ Insight2024-01-12
Monetary-policy watchers are currently divided into two groups. But perhaps both sides should pause and reflect on where we were 18 months ago and where we are now. On one side of the divide are those ...More
EJ Insight2024-01-09
With air travel finally returning to pre-pandemic levels, this holiday season is expected to be exceptionally hectic. Many passengers, especially in the United States, will face maddening flight delay ...More
EJ Insight2024-01-05
十多年來,礦業巨頭嘉能可(Glencore)一直在秘魯埃斯皮納爾省(Espinar)開採銅礦。在那段時間裏,當 ...全文
名家論壇Project Syndicate2024年01月03日
On March 5, 2024, the people of Colorado will vote in a “primary election” to determine which candidates can compete for the US presidency in November. The question now looming is whether former Presi ...More
EJ Insight2024-01-03
The existence of “women’s issues” reflects the simple fact that we live in a man’s world. Over the course of centuries, research and policies focused on men became the default, whereas initiatives tha ...More
EJ Insight2024-01-02
Mining giant Glencore has been extracting copper in the Peruvian province of Espinar for more than a decade. During that time, the presence of toxic metals in the local environment and people has been ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-28
The sun-drenched coral islands and reefs of the Maldives are in existential danger. With 80% of the country’s population living just one meter above sea level, many islands could become uninhabitable ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-21
The debt crisis in low-income countries continues to fester. Meanwhile, the international policy community seems to be losing traction on the problem. Can it recover its grip, or has a developing-coun ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-20
The Western-led global economic order had a bad 2023. Surprisingly, the primary cause was not the emergence of an alternative order led by China, as some had anticipated. Instead, it was internal stre ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-19
Amid record heatwaves, intensifying and costly extreme weather events, and increasingly dire warnings that climate change is literally killing us, calls to abandon fossil fuels grow louder. But the fo ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-12
The largest antitrust trial of the modern internet era, which wrapped up last month, has pitted the world’s most popular search engine, Google, against the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). T ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-08
For millennia, natural infrastructure – such as river systems, wetlands, coastal plains, sand dunes, and forests – supported the development of human civilization. In fact, our ability to harness such ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-07
When political leaders, policymakers, environmental advocates, and philanthropists gather for this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai (COP28), food systems will be high on the ag ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-07
Even with the recent partial retreat in long-term real and nominal interest rates, they remain well above the ultra-low levels to which policymakers had grown accustomed, and they are likely to stay a ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-06
As the start of this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) approaches, those leading it continue to inspire concern and even indignation. After all, the host will be the United Arab ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-04