... oligarchs may have diminished because of the Zelensky government’s effective wartime response, but they haven’t gone away. Moreover, the coordination problem is significantly more complicated than it ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-12
... April and May. The country’s investment outlook has struggled since 2021, reflecting several headwinds from sweeping regulatory reforms, the weak real estate market, to COVID outbreaks. Yet, China’s a ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-11
... cials. In May 2019, Taiwan approved same-sex marriage, the first country in Asia to do so. The number of approved migrants from HK in 2019, 2020 and 2021 were 5,858 and 10,813 and 11,173 respectively. ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-10
... war that may last for years? World War I occurred over a century ago, yet historians still write books debating what caused it. Did it start because a Serbian terrorist assassinated an Austrian archd ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-10
... ebt trap, may still wimp out and settle for above-target inflation. Any portfolio of risky equities and less risky fixed-income bonds will lose money, owing to higher inflation and inflation expectati ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-07
... Black Sea may be rhetorically effective – yet the potential fallout, both in terms of chemical waste and actual repercussions, is far too pricey in exchange for what could likely come across as little ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-07
... the road may make a few select voters feel better – through self-delusion; yet fundamentally, the cost-of-living crisis cannot be resolved through measures that line the pockets of the wealthy, at th ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-06
... the road may make a few select voters feel better – th ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2022年10月06日
... urrencies may be thought of as file formats for digital money in the same way that JPG, a digital image compression technology, makes it possible to share digital photos or PDF, a portable document fo ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-05
... vereignty may lead to “increased governance or controls related to research collaborations”. It is also worth noting that there are growing links between the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and Chinese ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-04
... overnment may have to ask for help from the IMF as it did after withdrawing from the European Rate Mechanism in September 1992. It would be an enormous loss of face.” He said that leaving the European ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-04
... e economy may suffer another lost half-decade of growth, and socially and politically destabilizing inequalities will become even more pronounced. Copyright: Project Syndicate-- Contact us at english@ ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-03
... 145 since May. Covid lockdowns and lower than expected growth forecast have also resulted in weakness of the Chinese Yuan. The PBoC has been working to dampen the effect but the Chinese Yuan recently ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-03
... everyone may get their 15 minutes of fame (the Andy Warhol principle), but they shouldn’t expect it to last any longer than that. The forex market – the world’s biggest fruit and vegetable stall – te ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-30
... king – it may be inclined to eschew further rate hikes, particularly given the growing criticism that it is tipping the economy into recession, destroying wealth, and fueling instability. Yet such a c ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-29
... s). Japan may be particularly vulnerable on this front, given that it has long maintained a near-zero long-term interest rate. The average maturity of bonds on the asset side of the BOJ’s balance shee ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-29
... rictions, may keep foreign tourists from visiting Hong Kong. Still, overseas Hong Kong people may start booking tickets to return for holidays in the perfect season for autumn hiking and Christmas sho ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-28
... s demands may well be beyond the capabilities of most developing-country bureaucracies, not least because of their siloed structures. Multilateral development banks and aid agencies, for their part, a ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-28
