每日一經濟學人 Daily x The Economist

🔴Tuesday April 13th 2021 🔵2021年4月13日星期二 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🌊🇩🇪🌊The gloves come off: Germany’s next chancellor 暗潮洶湧：德國的下一任總理 The race to succeed Angela Merkel as Germany’s chancellor has suddenly heated up. Mrs Merkel’s centre-right Christian Democratic Union and its sister party in Bavaria, the Christian Social Union, must choose a joint candidat...

🔴Monday April 12th 2021 🔵2021年4月12日星期一 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🕵️🕵️🕵️Stepping out: England’s lockdown 審慎地漸入佳境：英格蘭的封鎖措施 Today England takes another step out of lockdown. Shops, hairdressers and gyms will open for the first time since the start of the year. The country is recording fewer than 2,500 cases of covid-19 a day, down from a peak of nearly 55...

🔴Friday April 9th 2021 🔵2021年4月9日星期五 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🇸🇬Rules of succession: Singapore’s next prime minister 接班繼承：新加坡的下一任總理 Singaporean politics received a jolt yesterday, when Heng Swee Keat, the heir apparent to the prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, announced that he would not take the top job after all. Succession in Singapore is normally plan...

🔴Thursday April 8th 2021 🔵2021年4月8日星期四 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🇺🇸Bottling it: corporate America and voting rights 美國喬治亞州的新版投票法：可不可口，可不可樂 Georgia’s new voting law—which opponents say will suppress voting, especially among black voters—has attracted numerous critics since passing last month. But it has also found defenders. On Monday Rand Paul, K...

🔴Wednesday April 7th 2021 🔵2021年4月7日星期三 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 📥🇰🇷📤Elections in South Korea: cities of disillusion 南韓大選：展顏消宿怨，一笑泯恩仇 South Koreans go to the polls today to elect new mayors for Seoul and Busan, the country’s biggest cities. The previous mayors, both members of the governing Minjoo party, were accused of sexual harassment by female e...

🔴Tuesday April 6th 2021 🔵2021年4月6日星期二 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 💧🏭💧Parched plants: Taiwan’s drought and the semiconductor industry 乾旱的大地：台灣的旱災及其半導體產業 The elements have plagued semiconductor manufacturing this year, exacerbating an already-existing shortage of the all-important silicon chips. A freak winter storm in February temporarily shut down T...

🔴Monday April 5th 2021 🔵2021年4月5日星期一 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🏦💰🏦Spring in their step: World Bank and IMF meetings 當春天來敲門：「世界銀行」與「國際貨幣基金組織」來開會 Covid-19 caused an economic calamity. Today the spring meetings of the World Bank and IMF bring an opportunity to reflect on whether these institutions have done enough to help. In 2020 the World...

🔴Friday April 2nd 2021 🔵2021年4月2日星期五 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🚢🇨🇳😰Water torture: Chinese diplomacy in South-East Asia 水刑伺候：中國在東南亞的 (戰狼) 外交 In a riposte to American efforts to reinvigorate alliances in Asia, Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, is on a charm offensive. He has been meeting his counterparts from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and S...

🔴Thursday April 1st 2021 🔵2021年4月1日星期四 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🥀🇫🇷🥀Macron’s lost bet: France shuts down 法式防疫：就沒那麼浪漫了… For the third time since the pandemic began, the French are preparing to go into lockdown. In an address on March 31st, President Emmanuel Macron announced new measures that will come into effect on Saturday. They will restrict all move...

🔴Wednesday March 31st 2021 🔵2021年3月31日星期三 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🇬🇧💰🇪🇺Taking back control: UK-EU trade after Brexit 奪回主控權：英國脫歐後與歐盟之貿易 Trade analysts will dutifully review the Office for National Statistics’ update on Britain’s balance of payments for the final quarter of 2020 when it is published today. But really they are much more interested in...

🔴Tuesday March 30th 2021 🔵2021年3月30日星期二 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 ☠🌍☠A bubbling threat: Islamic State in Africa 不停冒泡般的威脅：伊斯蘭國在非洲 Today Antony Blinken, America’s secretary of state, is to co-host a virtual meeting of the Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh/ISIS, an 83-country group set up in 2014 to combat Islamic State. High on the agenda is Africa. Seve...

🔴Monday March 29th 2021 🔵2021年3月29日星期一 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 😰🇪🇺😰Choice paralysis: Europe’s third wave of covid-19 選擇糾結：歐洲的第三波新冠疫情 The German state of Baden-Württemberg is relaxing its lockdown restrictions today: gatherings of up to five people from two families are now allowed, even in areas with higher rates of covid-19. The change is typical o...

🔴Tuesday March 30th 2021 🔵2021年3月30日星期二 🎉🎉今天是個特別的日子，是「每日一經濟學人 LEON x The Economist」團隊成立的一週年🎉🎉 💪我們從原本的「3️⃣個傻瓜 (Leon, Chester, Danny)」，現在已茁壯成1️⃣1️⃣個人的團隊了！ ⭕從原本單單在臉書粉專上的「每日新聞」，這一年下來我們逐漸發展出了…… ✅每週回顧 ✅每週看圖 ✅每週週報 ✅電商代言 ✅總編輯觀點 ✅即時新聞分享 ✅私人家教班課程 ✅活動推薦與分享 ✅大專...

🔴Friday March 26th 2021 🔵2021年3月26日星期五 1️⃣US feat. UK v. Myanmar’s military junta 美國 feat. 英國 vs. 緬甸軍政府 America and Britain imposed sanctions on junta-controlled conglomerates in Myanmar, as the country’s army continued to crack down on protests against February’s coup. At least 286 people had been killed in the pro-democracy protests by Wednesday; five more were reportedly killed...

🔴Thursday March 25th 2021 🔵2021年3月25日星期四 1️⃣Ever Given blocking the Suez Canal: OPPS 長榮海運長賜號擱淺在蘇伊士運河：拍謝啦 Experts say that refloating a ship that ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal on Tuesday may take a few days. The Ever Given, which at 400 metres is one of the world’s longest container ships, is obstructing the southern entrance to the passage, causing a traffic jam...

🔴Wednesday March 24th 2021 🔵2021年3月24日星期三 1️⃣Gun-control laws in America: over and over again… 美國的槍枝管制法律：一遍又一遍… President Joe Biden called for stricter gun-control laws in America, after two recent mass shootings in Boulder, Colorado and Atlanta, Georgia. Mr Biden urged the Senate to re-enact a ban on assault weapons and pass two bills that would close loopholes in backgroun...

🔴Tuesday March 23rd 2021 🔵2021年3月23日星期二 1️⃣Renesas Electronics of Japan: global shortage on car chips may come… 日商瑞薩電子：全球汽車芯片恐將短缺… Shares in Japanese carmakers fell after a fire at a semiconductor factory near Tokyo on Friday, which is expected to stop production of chips for at least a month. Two-thirds of those made at the facility, owned by a subsidiary of Renesas Elect...

🔴Monday March 22nd 2021 🔵2021年3月22日星期一 1️⃣American defence secretary in Afghanistan: long-stay 美國國防部長訪問阿富汗：長住 Lloyd Austin, the American defence secretary, met Afghanistan’s president, Ashraf Ghani, on an unannounced visit to Kabul, the capital. America is due to withdraw its forces from the country by May 1st. President Joe Biden has suggested that it would be difficult to m...

🔴Friday March 19th 2021 🔵2021年3月19日星期五 1️⃣EMS: AZ vaccine is “safe and effective” 歐洲藥品管理局：AZ 疫苗“安全有效” The European Medicines Agency said the Oxford University/AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine was “safe and effective”, following a review. Many European countries have halted vaccinations with the drug, amid concerns that it increased the risk of blood clots. The World Health Organi...

🔴Thursday March 18th 2021 🔵2021年3月18日星期四 1️⃣Legalising same-sex marriage in Japan!? 日本亦將同性婚姻合法化！？ A Japanese court ruled that the country’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. Japan is the only country in the G7, a group of rich nations, that does not allow same-sex unions. Its constitution defines marriage as being between “both sexes”, but the court said this viola...

🔴Wednesday March 17th 2021 🔵2021年3月17日星期三 1️⃣Huawei: retrieving the net 華為：收網時間到了 Huawei recorded its biggest-ever annual increase in the number of active patents it owns, from just over 85,000 in 2019 to more than 100,000 last year. The Chinese telecoms giant, which holds more 5G patents than any other company in the world, plans to start charging other smartphone makers a royalt...

🔴Tuesday March 16th 2021 🔵2021年3月16日星期二 1️⃣EU v. UK: on trade…again! 歐盟 vs. 英國：因貿易而槓上…又來了！ The European Union launched legal action against Britain for unilaterally easing trading conditions for businesses in Northern Ireland, in an alleged breach of the Brexit withdrawal agreement. This month Britain extended grace periods on Irish Sea border checks from the end of March to...

🔴Monday March 15th 2021 🔵2021年3月15日星期一 1️⃣Sri Lanka: banning burqas…as well 斯里蘭卡：也跟著禁止伊斯蘭婦女的傳統服飾 Sri Lanka’s minister of public security said he expected a ban on wearing burqas to be signed into law imminently. Sarath Weerasekara said the move was aimed at improving national security, and that the garment was a symbol of religious extremism. Sri Lanka imposed a tempora...

🔴Friday March 12th 2021 🔵2021年3月12日星期五 1️⃣Pakistan: banning TikTok…too 巴基斯坦：也…跟著禁止抖音 Pakistan became the second country in south Asia, after India, to ban TikTok, a short-video app. The Peshawar High Court, which issued the ruling, said that the app promotes “immoral and objectionable” content that does not align with Pakistani values. It follows a previous ban of the Chinese-o...

🔴Wednesday March 10th 2021 🔵2021年3月10日星期三 1️⃣President Biden’s stimulus package: a shake for all 美國總統拜登的振興方案：全球經濟成長也被帶動 Joe Biden’s stimulus package will add about one percentage point to global economic growth in 2021, according to the OECD. It will boost America’s growth rate even more; the OECD revised its forecast upward, from 3.2% to 6.5%. The $1.9trn measure has...