... a further sharp downturn in bond, stock, and credit markets, giving central banks yet another reason to backpedal. Simply put, the effort to fight inflation could easily crash the economy, the markets ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-01
... panied by sharp rise in migration. A more resilient, sustainable, and equitable food system must be a pillar of any climate mitigation or adaptation agenda. But the barriers to building such a system ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-24
... seeing a sharp uptick in departure queries, while online chat groups swapping advice on how to leave the city amid lockdown curbs have swelled. The last straw was difficulties obtaining food and fear ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-23
... roadmap A sharp rise in interest rates has seen the tide turn and now the bird in the hand has value and will compete for investor capital. Keeping it simple, let’s think this through and develop a ro ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-20
... –led by a sharp rebound in the three mighty internet giants after a couple of brokers upgraded the battered sector. Specifically JP Morgan made a sharp u-turn by raising the stocks of the big seven ma ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-18
... y faced a sharp income decline that left them struggling to meet their obligations. The moratoria were often accompanied by policies that gave banks the regulatory flexibility not to reclassify the af ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-06
... nditions, sharp energy-price spikes are inevitable. And as the price of energy rises, “greenflation” will hit prices for the raw materials used in solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles, and other ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-29
... ever, the sharp rise in oil and natural gas prices in 2021 may be raising demand for copper by fueling interest in alternative technologies such as wind, solar, batteries and electric vehicles, all of ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-19
Europe’s economy is finely poised between recession and growth. The knife edge is sharp because European policymakers have exactly zero control over the outcome. Before Russian President Vladimir Puti ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-14
... stalls, a sharp contrast to its border city Shenzhen, w ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightNeville Lai, Brian YS Wong2022年04月14日
One does not miss her until she is about to go. That probably explains the sharp rebound of the public opinion poll of outgoing Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, whose rating in April was 33 ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-13
... stalls, a sharp contrast to its border city Shenzhen, where cash is rarely used. Additionally, Hong Kong may experiment to develop regulated cryptocurrency experimentation to restore confidence in its ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-12
... , like my sharp former teacher, Olivier Blanchard, see the 1970s as the best analogy. But while that may prove to be correct, they have a weak case. The 1974 outbreak of inflation came after a previou ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-29
... rown into sharp relief by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Trump derided Ukraine as a “loser” country, while then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly asked, “Do you think Americans give a fuck abou ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-25
... preciated sharply, while government bond yields have fallen back. The consensus forecast for Russia GDP growth in 2022 stands at -8% – a sharp contraction, but hardly a collapse. It is not hard to und ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-25
... it broke sharply to the upside before correcting in mid-March. Gold’s recent behavior leads to two questions: 1) Why did gold not rally between April 2021 and January 2022 as inflation surged?2) Why ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-23
