The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in northern California and Signature Bank in New York are the largest bank busts since 2008. Regional and mid-sized bank stocks have tanked, and depositors and busi ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-17
China’s decision to loosen its Covid restrictions and reopen its economy may create short term uncertainty and disruption, but is likely to be a positive move over the medium and longer term for many ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-17
... important to the future of civilization to have a commo ...全文
Disruption is coming to the agriculture sector. Around the world, livestock farmers are leaving the land, policymakers are targeting the harmful environmental and social effects of industrial meat pro ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-16
Well, it was fun while it lasted. Two decades of easy money with low to zero interests, further juiced by successive rounds of ever larger stimulus spending, turned prudent investment principle on its ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-16
Ballet galas are rare in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Ballet used to host an international stars gala every spring. The Hong Kong Arts Festival last organised a ballet gala programme in 2018 featuring the Bol ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-16
... ecline in total deposits underscores the risk that thes ...全文
... 。 在佛利民(Milton Friedman)的《資本主義與自由》(Capitalism and Freedo ...全文
名家論壇Project Syndicate2023年03月15日
One of the first English sentences we learned from Primary One was “I go to school by bus”. Despite being Chinglish, it was a memory embedded in our minds for decades although the phrase has become an ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-15
The run on Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) – on which nearly half of all venture-backed tech start-ups in the United States depend – is in part a rerun of a familiar story, but it’s more than that. Once aga ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-15
... 至到期」(held-to-maturity)形式存在的較長年期國債,不但賬面價值隨着加息而下跌,更要命是短期內 ...全文
This year's Budget proposes to establish an artificial intelligence supercomputer center, and the government says that having sufficient computing infrastructure is a prerequisite for promoting AI dev ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-14
When the United States and its G7 partners imposed sanctions on Russia’s central bank and barred Western financial institutions from doing business with Russian counterparties, commentators warned of ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-14
... ery close to his and 32 years his junior -- Florida Governor Ronald DeSantis. One is ex-President Donald Trump, 76, who has declared his candidacy and busy campaigning. The other is Florida Governor R ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-14
... howing Customs and search stations,已載有「深水步汛」,為當時清政府環繞港島 ...全文