Three upcoming international gatherings – the G20 Leaders’ Summit in September, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings in October, and the United Nations Climate Change Confere ...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
... rty legislator Adrian Ho King-hong, the father of Lan Kwai Fong wasted no time saying we should all get used to the new paradigm shift because the consumption pattern has changed. It is understandable ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-23
After a period of relative isolation, Hong Kong is gearing up to step back into the global limelight. Many industries have seen relentless seismic shifts, with their market landscapes shaken up again ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-22
While 2022 was challenging for equity markets, growth stocks rebounded in the first half of 2023, driven by resilient corporate earnings, moderating inflation, and strong consumer demand. Growth stock ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-21
The 2008 financial crisis in the United States kicked off a debt supercycle, which spread to Europe in 2010 and has recently engulfed many of the world’s low-income and lower-middle-income countries. ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-18
In just one year, inflation in the United States has fallen from a peak of about 9% to just 3%. Standard economic models suggest that such rapid disinflation would be possible only with a large increa ...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
As Western governments face the increasingly urgent task of accelerating the transition to a low-carbon economy, the pendulum has swung away from a heavy reliance on markets to drive innovation toward ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-17
... 融世界的value at risk，而是計量工具vector autoregression。英文名字不明所以， ...全文
... to immigration department data, some 165,000 Hong Kong people used road transport to visit China every day last month, compared to an average of 100,000 coming to Hong Kong from China. A friend who r ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-16
What a difference two years make. In 2021, when interest rates were near zero in the United States and the United Kingdom and slightly negative in the eurozone and Japan, the consensus was that they w ...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
Wang Li graduated from university with a degree in political science and public administration. Now she is working in Guiyang, southwest China, as a live-in domestic help. It is not her first choice, ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-15
US President Joe Biden and his team get little credit for their management of the American economy. Aware that the 2024 presidential election, like most, will turn on economic conditions, or perceptio ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-14
The 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) included - for the first time in history - burnout as an occupational phenomenon. ICD-11 defines burnout as “a syndrome conce ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-14
This year marks the halfway point for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the ambitious set of global targets introduced by the United Nations in 2015. These 17 goals, devised to ad ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-14
