... ot war between them even if the two sides so far have failed to agree on “guardrails” with which to ensure against it - the stake simply is deemed too high. I stand by the guesswork despite Biden’s sh ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-25
“The world, as we know it, is becoming increasingly multi-polar.” This is a proposition oft-trotted out to describe or highlight the significance of events such as the ongoing BRICS Summit in Johannes ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-25
... e extreme weather events underscoring the urgent need for decisive action, much of the attention will rightly be on the debt crisis currently engulfing much of the developing world. Given that many mi ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-24
Hong Kong is losing its appeal for Westerners because of the impact of Covid restrictions, the National Security Law (NSL), an increasing requirement to speak Mandarin and negative coverage in the Wes ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-24
... 《飢餓遊戲》「If we burn, you burn with us.」此句對白。她形容，在2019年的社會 ...全文
... me saying we should all get used to the new paradigm shift because the consumption pattern has changed. It is understandable for the value-conscious locals to go to Shenzhen because it offers better s ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-23
... lprit for weak equity performance in 2022. But receding inflation, signs of slowing economic growth, and the Fed signaling a rate-hike pause fueled a rotation back toward growth stocks with solid earn ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-21
... bsent any weakening in labor markets, the inflation rate could have been expected to decline by about half. While others may have made somewhat different estimates, no credible economist expected infl ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-18
Disruptive technologies are rarely welcomed by workers or others with a significant stake in the status quo. Innovation requires adaptation, and adaptation is costly. Powerful incumbents’ resistance t ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-17
... ng, there were actually more locals going over to Shenzhen and Zhuhai. According to immigration department data, some 165,000 Hong Kong people used road transport to visit China every day last month, ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-16
In May, the US Environmental Protection Agency proposed new power-plant rules that would effectively require every existing coal- or gas-fired plant in the United States either to capture and store mo ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-15
... ducted between July 26 and 28 gave Biden just a 34% approval rating on the economy. The explanation for this negative impression is straightforward: inflation. People rightly perceive inflation as a t ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-14
... . Indeed, we see it everywhere - from the ‘guolaosi’ phenomenon in the Sinosphere that has since given rise to terms such as ‘bailan’ and ‘tangping’, in description of the only responses that the crow ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-14
... the SDGs were launched, the target of eliminating food insecurity and malnutrition worldwide within 15 years seemed ambitious but within reach. At the time, hunger levels had been trending lower for ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-14
The cost of feeding the world’s human population is taking a significant toll on our biodiversity. The world’s population reached eight billion in 2022 and it is expected to be between ten to twelve b ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-11
... monolith. We could ill afford to lump them all together in one category, and assert that “This is what the youth really think!” Indeed, the last thing we should do is to appoint a figure(head) or two ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-11
2022 was a year of inflation. Most central banks were behind the curve and had to tighten aggressively to catch up. In 2023, I think focus has been more centered around the economic cycle. Inflation i ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-11
... ally they were focused on memory, storage and process automation. The more the value of a human brain can be integrated into the technology, the more they will be able to capture large parts of the va ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-10
