This month marked the 30th anniversary of the promulgation of Hong Kong’s Basic Law. While the coronavirus outbreak has subdued events planned to mark the occasion, Hong Kong’s manifold challenges in ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-23
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the greatest global challenges in generations. Governments and monetary authorities are correctly using every policy lever at their disposal to prevent a grave public-h ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-22
... s pandemic. If another person earnestly implores me to ‘stay safe’ or ‘stay healthy’ or, far worse, urges me ‘not to despair’, I may well be forced into doing something I will almost certainly regret. ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-20
Declining coronavirus infection rates and plans to begin easing lockdown measures in some parts of the developed world have provided a ray of hope after weeks of unrelenting gloom. But, for many devel ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-16
Last week, the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers, having acknowledged that nobody is to blame for the COVID-19 crisis, agreed to a deal to mitigate its economic fallout. The agreement includes € ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-16
In Australia, whenever something resembling a crisis comes along, the housing doomsayers will come scurrying out of their dens with proclamations of “Repent! The end is near!”. And for the longest tim ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-15
To mask or not to mask? That is the question. Covid-19 has woken the rest of the world to a practice with which the people of Hong Kong are very familiar. The SARS epidemic brought home the utility of ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-14
The coronavirus has poisoned already bad relations between the mainland and Taiwan. Instead of bringing the two together to fight a common enemy, the epidemic has driven them further apart. The Taiwan ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-14
Despite a deep recession in 2008 and a slow recovery thereafter, the first two decades of the twenty-first century were generally a time of economic progress in most advanced economies. Real (inflatio ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-09
... 經濟增長，將會介乎0.1%到2.3%，為1976年以來所未見的低潮。 相信中國內地及全球各國，特別是倚重貿易的 ...全文
Economists were shocked when US unemployment claims shot up from 281,000 to 3.28 million in just one week from March 14 to March 21. The cause was of course the COVID-19 virus. Specifically, the cause ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-07
The way forward to stabilize food supply I grew up in Yuen Long where jasmine rice and farming were famous half a century ago but have eventually faded out. However, the recent epidemic has driven me ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-06
