... w “precariat” – are saddled with debt, have little financial wealth, and face diminishing economic prospects. These trends indicate a growing disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street. The new st ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-03
Do not bite the hand that feeds you. That is not just the top rule in journalism but also a lesson Paul Chan should learn – if he wants to keep his job, not to mention promotion. In an interview with ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-03
... the aftermath of the 2019 civil unrest. The usual critics – Pan-Democrats and opposition politicians – have characterised it as too little, too late in ameliorating the abject poverty induced by the s ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-03
Patriotism – love of one's country, love of one's land, ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightA Hongkonger2021年03月03日
In the latest round of jab arrangement, citizens in the priority groups can make online bookings to receive the COVID-19 vaccine from March 3, the Government said Monday. They can arrange to receive t ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-02
In “The Great Realisation,” a compelling four-minute video, the poet Tomos Roberts (aka Tom Foolery) suggests a potential silver lining to the COVID-19 cataclysm. By forcing us to slow down, literally ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-02
Massive fiscal and monetary stimulus programs in the United States and other advanced economies are fueling a raging debate about whether higher inflation could be just around the corner. Ten-year US ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-02
As the world enters the second year of the coronavirus pandemic, vaccination has moved front and center in policymakers’ responses. But while vaccines offer the surest way out of the crisis, countries ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-01
... Martian material to visit Earth. Finding DNA on Mars would not be a complete surprise. Though Perseverance was constructed in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility (SAF) clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsio ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-01
Patriotism – love of one’s country, love of one’s land, love of one’s origins and roots. Brilliant stuff – in theory. We should take patriotism to be perfectly benign and eminently harmless. Benign, i ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-01
Global equities have had a lot going right for them in the past nine months. An unprecedented easing of monetary policy provided full-blown valuation support, while a succession of fiscal programs aro ...More
EJ Insight2021-02-26
Just over one year into the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been impossible to ignore the stratospheric growth of digital payment methods across the world. In APAC specifically, we’ve seen Facebook and PayP ...More
EJ Insight2021-02-26
Sometimes in life, you find yourself “in between.” In between seasons, in between relationships, in between jobs. One season is ending, and the next has yet to begin. This is where markets are now. Di ...More
EJ Insight2021-02-26
Apart from handing out HK$5,000 spending e-coupons to Hongkongers to stimulate local spending, the revival of tourism, also hard hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, is another key issue financial chief Paul ...More
EJ Insight2021-02-25
Among the economic stimulus measures financial chief Paul Chan revealed yesterday in the 2021-22 budget, the disbursement of HK$5,000 spending e-vouchers is probably what the public is most interested ...More
EJ Insight2021-02-25
Normally I would focus on Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po's budget whichhe unveiled yesterday. Not this year, except to say he tried his best with an austerity budget that still offered HK$5,000 s ...More
EJ Insight2021-02-25
... budget that still offered HK$5,000 spending vouchers t ...全文
今日信報時事評論STRAIGHT-SHOOTING褚簡寧 Michael Chugani2021年02月25日
... ial Suite at Mandarin Oriental? After a year of social distancing in which our longest trip to have is probably Cheung Chau, Hong Kong people are starting to dream about flying out of this tiny city i ...More
EJ Insight2021-02-24
