... hunt for my friend was also concluded last weekend with a two-bedroom unit at a good location on Hong Kong Island for a price tag well below HK$7 million. It is not a Snow White ending yet but the po ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-08
As if conditions weren’t gloomy enough in the United Kingdom, the International Monetary Fund recently downgraded the country’s growth forecast even as it offered a brighter outlook for the rest of th ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-08
My book on the economic history of the twentieth century, published last fall, did not include a chapter on the question of the future or “what we should do next,” because my frequent co-author, Steph ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-06
... ntrary to my considered opinion but for the sake of argument, that fear of disclosure of state secrets does justify restricting defence counsel to members of the local Bar. Logically, the prohibition ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-01
... the economy always to be in equilibrium – were effectively useless. And, second, those who confidently asserted that it would take five years of pain to wring inflation out of the system have already ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-30
... jest. In my view, the ideal educator’s success is determined neither by the volume of self-aggrandising and self-congratulatory rhetoric they churn out, nor by the amount of money earned by their stu ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-27
Last week I had lunch with my former instructor at graduate school who is a China expert. Naturally, I took the chance to ask questions on the thorniest geopolitical topic in Asia Pacific – whether Ch ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-26
... district. My friend ended up cutting short his Taipei tour and returned to Hong Kong. If Taiwan saw a sharp surge in hotel rates, a similar hike would likely happen in Macao – and other mainlanders’ f ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-18
... s this in my next article. -- Contact us at [email protected] ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-17
... point in my career, I was introduced to an old almanac that offered an endless array of heuristics about US stock markets’ past performance. One nugget that always stuck with me is the five-day rule: ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-17
... s some of my more recent thinking on the subject matter. The following constitutes a broad skeleton to the talk: On truth. A new ‘kind’ of ‘truth’ is emerging – a type that straddles the divide betwee ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-16
... ? This is my first COP, as said, the atmosphere is very busy and hustling. Youth delegates including myself wanted to make the most of the opportunity to join negotiations and arrange meetings with pa ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-12
... can pass my wife’s medical-licensing exam, is there any reason it can’t provide a diagnosis or offer sound medical advice? An obvious implication is more rapid displacement from jobs, compared to pas ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-12
