Hong Kong has refused to renew a work visa for the Asia news editor of the Financial Times, who is also an official of the city’s Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC), Reuters reports. The news comes tw ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-05
Populist economics has rarely had it so good. The US economy is roaring, the stock market is soaring, and the Trump administration’s protectionism has apparently had a negligible impact on growth. Tru ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-03
US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell hailed a “remarkably positive outlook” for the US economy that he feels is on the verge of a “historically rare” era of ultra-low unemployment and tame prices ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-03
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
Last June, The Economist lamented that US President “Donald Trump is undermining the rules-based international order” as he seeks “short-term wins for America” at the cost of “long-term damage to the ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-28
The Hang Seng Index hit a record high of 33,484 points on January 29, and then tumbled 20 percent from its peak for the first time on September 7. Technically speaking it has already entered the bear ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-21
Entrepreneurs and academics in China seem to realize that the biggest headwind for the nation’s economy is a deteriorating internal business environment rather than the US-China trade war. At the rece ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-20
Smoking has been banned in public facilities and venues in Singapore for years. Recently, however, a lawmaker has proposed that the government also ban cigarette smoking in all public housing units, a ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-14
Joseph Stiglitz, Roger Farmer, and I are now and have long been in agreement on what are probably the most important points. The “New Keynesian” paradigm that sees business cycles as arising from temp ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-07
A public engagement exercise on land supply options has been underway for about four months now. Spearheaded by the Task Force on Land Supply, the so-called big debate is scheduled to be wrapped up to ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-31
The Hong Kong government is proud of its tobacco control efforts. The rate of smoking among the adult population is now below 20 percent. Officials believe they can get the number down to below 10 per ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-30
Xiang Ligang, a part-time professor with the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), recently posted a highly provocative tweet on Weibo, in which he suggested that the Chinese who ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-28
China, the world’s most populous nation, appears to be setting the stage to end its decades-long policy of determining the number of children that couples can have, Reuters reports, citing a social me ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-28
A video gamer killed two people and wounded several others on Sunday when he opened fire with a handgun at a tournament that was being streamed online from a restaurant in Jacksonville, Florida, Reute ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-27
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull survived a leadership challenge by Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton on Tuesday, but the narrow margin of his win did little to dampen speculation about his ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-21
Sepp Blatter’s claims that Qatar cheated in its pursuit of the right to host the 2022 World Cup ring hollow. After all, this was the man who was supposedly presiding over FIFA, world football’s govern ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-17
Gregory So Kam-leung, the former commerce Secretary, was invited recently by the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), the city's largest pro-Beijing political party, ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-17
By offering products or services and creating value, companies are rewarded with profit. This logic applies to almost all businesses. But cryptocurrency mining might be an exception. It's reported tha ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-17
With thousand such enchanting dreams, that meet To make a sleep not so sound, as sweet. -- Robert Herrick A Hong Kong independent from the People’s Republic of China is a pipe dream. But if we cannot ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-09
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said the government regrets to see an organization holding an event with the theme of Hong Kong independence. Lam was responding to a reporter's question abo ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-06
