Insomnia is a growing problem around the world, with hundreds of millions of people suffering from the sleep disorder. The National Sleep Foundation in the US suggests that adults need to sleep seven ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-09
Throughout history, crisis and human progress have often gone hand in hand. While the growing Covid-19 epidemic could strengthen nationalism and isolationism and accelerate the retreat from globalizat ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-09
The novel coronavirus outbreak caught Carrie Lam’s administration at a time that plausibly could not have been worse, with fresh wounds left by months of violent civilian-police clashes and unpreceden ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-09
A woman who traveled abroad and subsequently tested positive for the novel coronavirus after her return to Hong Kong was found to have visited multiple places in the city before she was admitted to a ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-06
欄友連續兩日寫預算案，正煩惱還有什麼好寫，傳媒朋友忽然傳來一篇題為Downsides to Hong Kong ...全文
Don't you wish you're a landlord? Once you've got a property to rent out, you won't have to work anymore. You can just laze around all the days of your life while your tenants work themselves to deat ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-05
Experts have urged the government to put up tents to serve as quarantine centers as part of efforts to contain the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak. The problem of finding enough space to meet qu ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-04
SoftBank Group Corp. chief executive Masayoshi Son, under pressure from hedge fund Elliott Management to rein in his mercurial investment style, turned on the charm in a meeting with US investors on M ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-03
2019 was a watershed year for Hong Kong’s banking sector, with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority ushering in a new era of virtual banking by granting eight virtual banking licenses. Since then, there h ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-25
January 2009 marked the birth of Bitcoin as Satoshi mined the genesis block – and the eleven short years that followed are a story of innovation, studded with milestone technical breakthroughs. As we ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-24
SoftBank-backed co-working space giant WeWork last year suffered major setbacks that included a failed initial public offering (IPO) plan and the ouster of a co-founder. The WeWork debacle is seen as ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-18
Tailor your message to your audience – that is rule number one for any successful marketer. But what if your audience is already overwhelmed by fear of a virus outbreak and angry at the way it is bein ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-18
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told Congress that the US economy is in a good place, even as he cited the potential threat from the coronavirus in China and concerns about the economy’s long-t ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-12
Awareness of potentially high-impact but improbable developments should help investors prepare for unexpected changes in market conditions. In our base case, the global economy is poised to improve in ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-11
(First of a two-part series) The coronavirus outbreak has sparked panic-buying in Hong Kong, with residents snapping up all the surgical masks they could find as well as daily necessities such as rice ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-10
Unicorns are rare. American research firm CB Insights tracked more than 1,100 technology startups which raised their first seed funds from 2008 to 2010, and found that less than half could secure a se ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-04
A meteorite that crashed into rural southeastern Australia in a fireball in 1969 contained the oldest material ever found on Earth, stardust that predated the formation of our solar system by billions ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-14
The year 2019 has witnessed, among other things, the fall of two so-called unicorns, or startups valued at over US$1 billion. US-based shared working space provider WeWork, which at one point had comm ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-13
