The US administration has avoided the debate on currency manipulation in the past years due to the impact of the financial crisis. Why? Because all major economies have tried to solve their imbalances ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-02
Ten years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the unorthodox measures central banks took to douse the fires of the global financial crisis have left a smoldering terrain that still casts a pall ove ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-24
As I mentioned in a previous article, I had been invited to serve as a mentor for several startups from Mainland China and Hong Kong. The project is called the X-Plan and has been organized by the Hon ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-17
As I mentioned in a previous column, whistleblowers had been instrumental in helping bring to light the faulty construction and the subsequent cover-up attempts in relation to some works on MTR's Shat ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-14
Much will be said about the tenth anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis, so I will focus on the global economy, which has not been nearly as weak as many seem to think. According to the Internation ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-11
The stock market, like any other market, is a set of relative opportunities, not absolute ones.I have never seen a more pessimistic environment despite a stock market that continues to reach all-time ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-10
Hong Kong authorities have invoked the Societies Ordinance in a bid to suppress the independence-leaning Hong Kong National Party (HKNP). The establishment camp, meanwhile, has lashed out at the city' ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-29
US President Donald Trump said he was “not thrilled” with the Federal Reserve under his own appointee, Chairman Jerome Powell, for raising interest rates and said the US central bank should do more to ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-21
Our Hong Kong Foundation has put forward a bold and visionary proposal known as the 'Enhanced East Lantau Metropolis" program. Under the proposal, the foundation suggests that the government build a g ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-16
Turkey's falling currency and deteriorating financial conditions lend credence, at least for some people, to the notion that "a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.” I suspect that many Western policy ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-15
新地(00016)旗下元朗錦田北PARK YOHO Milano(下稱Milano)開售不足兩周售逾80%,項 ...全文
中環核心區商廈空置率奇低,企業為求進駐指標商廈,各出其謀搶租據點。長實(01113)旗下中環皇后大道中2號的長 ...全文
長實(01113)與市建局合作發展的中環My Central錄得撻訂個案,料損失200萬元。 據悉,項目15樓 ...全文
The US Department of State has been publishing the annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report since 2001 as required by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) passed by Congress in 2000. The TI ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-06
If there is one special thing about my home district Tseung Kwan O, it is all about the ultra-high-density living. Looking out from my balcony, I can see around 20,000 homes. The calculation is easy: ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-01
While having lunch with an Asian diplomat a couple of weeks ago, I happened to mention the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, which comprises the United States, Japan, India and Australia and is commonl ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-30
Apart from the old-timers, including those from the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong, that I mentioned in my previous column, several incumbent lawmakers of the Democratic Alliance fo ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-25
American presidents are supposed to take America’s side when dealing with other countries. When Barack Obama was (falsely) accused of starting his term with a Middle East “apology tour”, it was unders ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-24
US President Donald Trump criticized Federal Reserve policy even though most economists believe the highest inflation in seven years and lowest unemployment in 40 years justify recent interest rate ri ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-20