The run on Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) – on which nearly half of all venture-backed tech start-ups in the United States depend – is in part a rerun of a familiar story, but it’s more than that. Once aga ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-15
... c research. This is good news for Hong Kong I&T, although a little late. Recently, I reported that the Biodiversity Geographic Information System (BGIS), which I had been waiting for nearly 30 yea ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-14
... cial order. Other countries would see those sanctions as yet another step in the West’s “weaponization” of finance. Fearing that they, too, might one day be on the receiving end of sanctions, governme ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-14
In selecting their party’s nominee for the U.S. Presidential Election in November next year, Republicans must choose between former President Donald Trump and a man whose policy platform is very close ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-14
As a maturing, cost-effective technology, electric vehicles (EVs) are a key part of the solution to planet-heating emissions. When paired with clean electricity, they offer a route to climate-neutral ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-13
We are at the halfway point for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (from 2015 to 2030), but we are not halfway to achieving them. In fact, in many critical areas – from poverty to food sec ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-13
In January, I expressed optimism that a recession across the Western world (and beyond) was becoming less likely, and high-frequency indicators since then have indeed supported a benign outlook. This ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-10
Recent months may well be remembered as the moment when predictive artificial intelligence went mainstream. While prediction algorithms have been in use for decades, the release of applications such a ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-09
In my view, the most profound and insightful work of political economy written in the 2010s was neither a journal article nor a monograph nor a book in the traditional sense. Rather, it was an online ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-09
... th a 'but'. And the 'but' is they need to see the detai ...全文
Salute to all women, especially mothers! Today is a day to remember their reproductive rights, especially in a kid-unfriendly city like Hong Kong. Thanks to the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions, w ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-08
... rickson, J. R.（2023）. Is the Quantity Theory Dead? Less ...全文
Driven largely by the digitization of virtually every aspect of our lives, customer expectations have shifted dramatically over the past few years. To keep pace, businesses must invest in the right ar ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-07
... ompetition. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was scheduled to visit Beijing to inaugurate that effort last month. But when China sent a surveillance balloon (visible to the naked eye) over America ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-07
US President Joe Biden deserves all the praise he received for his recent trip to Ukraine and Poland to mark the first anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion. Biden’s ten-hour train ride from the ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-06
... l tensions. As a result, the focus was on traditional security threats. That is both understandable and disappointing. While the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine dominated the MSC dis ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-06
There are few societies in which I am as conscious of my age, as in Hong Kong. “A twenty-five year old…”, “A youth academic”, “A youth writer”… So on and so forth, you get the gist and I get the drill ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-03
In 2012, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission grabbed international attention by investigating the manipulation of LIBOR, Euribor, and other interest-rate benchmarks. By 2015, the CFTC had fined s ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-03
