Four hundred years ago, John Rolfe used tobacco seeds pilfered from the West Indies to develop Virginia’s first profitable export, undermining the tobacco trade of Spain’s Caribbean colonies. More tha ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-19
As I have traveled around the world in recent weeks, I am repeatedly asked two questions: Is it conceivable that Donald Trump could win the US presidency? And how did his candidacy get this far in the ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-17
Because traditional financial services are not designed for small depositors and borrowers, several non-traditional models have been able to scale up rapidly in this untapped market. But without a str ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-14
At the start of October, China’s currency, the renminbi, was added to the basket of currencies that make up the International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Rights (SDR). Previously, the SDR had been ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-11
在美國總統奧巴馬的8年任期步入尾聲之際，外界對他無法遏止敍利亞殺戮的批評愈演愈烈，不少人將之稱為他「最壞的錯誤 ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 信觀點Christopher R. Hill2016年10月08日
The Brussels Conference on Afghanistan this week marks an important opportunity to create a roadmap for the country's future. While Afghanistan's current path has led to some progress, it is far from ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-06
美國需要把支出從戰爭轉移到教育上，從中央情報局（CIA）支持的顛覆政權活動轉移到新的全球教育基金（GFE）上。 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機Jeffrey D. Sachs2016年10月05日
In his recent debate with his opponent Hillary Clinton, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pressed his claim that US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen is politically motivated. The Fed, T ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-04
The United States needs to shift its spending from war to education, from CIA-backed regime change to a new Global Fund for Education (GFE). With hundreds of millions of children around the world not ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-30
Saudi Arabia has long relied on oil to fuel its economic growth and development. Last year, oil accounted for about three-quarters of the kingdom’s total export revenues and around 90 percent of gover ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-28
Real-estate prices in China's top cities are spiking, generating contradictory predictions of either bursting bubbles or a coming economic turnaround. What's really going on in the market? The Nationa ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-27
The European Union's list of crises keeps growing. But, beyond the United Kingdom's "Brexit" vote to leave the bloc, Poland’s constitutional-court imbroglio, Russian expansionism, migrants and refugee ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-26
受傳統儒家思想影響，中國自古就很重視教育，認為「萬般皆下品，惟有讀書高」，用功讀書成才方能成為受人景仰的士人。 ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 信觀點Edoardo Campanella2016年09月24日
Imagine it is 2020. The director of the CIA requests an urgent meeting with the US president. Reason: North Korea has succeeded in making a nuclear bomb small enough to fit inside the tip of an interc ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-21
The early returns on Brexit are in, and contrary to what some have been claiming, they’re not good. In July, following the referendum, consumer confidence collapsed at its most rapid rate since 1990. ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-14
法國在2010年通過禁令，禁止國民在公共場合穿着如罩袍（Burqa）等會遮掩面部的服飾，備受西方媒體抨擊；最近 ...全文
Syria’s civil war is the most dangerous and destructive crisis on the planet. Since early 2011, hundreds of thousands have died, about 10 million Syrians have been displaced, Europe has been convulsed ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-31
Britain's new prime minister, Theresa May, has a monumental task ahead of her: fulfilling British – or, more accurately, English and Welsh – voters' demand to "Brexit" the European Union, and managing ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-31
China’s transformation from a manufacturing-driven and export-led economy to one underpinned by services and domestic consumption is firmly under way. And that’s good news not just for China but also ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-29
The world’s population is getting bigger – and older. With the elderly increasingly close to outnumbering their younger counterparts – by 2050, there will be nearly three times more people aged 65 and ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-24
