Suppose that you had invested your wealth in a broadly diversified set of stocks, starting in January 1871, with the dividends being rolled back into your portfolio, and with your portfolio being reba ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-03
How bad is the local economy? One can track through many leading and lagging economic indicators but perhaps it is easier to have a ride chat with a local taxi driver. It is quite clear the taxi busin ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-03
It shouldn’t make sense. Donald Trump has just been indicted on four criminal charges, including defrauding the United States and conspiring to deprive Americans of their voting rights. Trump also fac ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-03
My current visit to Israel has coincided with a period of unprecedented political turmoil. A radical right-wing government’s package of legislation to disempower the judiciary has started to be adopte ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-02
The US Q2 earnings season is off to a solid start. After 35% of earnings reports, 71% of companies managed to beat pre-season consensus expectations, which would be the highest beat rate since Q2 2022 ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-02
In his inauguration speech in May, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu announced the end of the country’s decades-old fuel subsidy. This is not the first time that Nigeria has attempted to abandon the poli ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-01
In 2000, the candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won the presidency of Taiwan with just 39 per cent of the popular vote. History is set to repeat itself next January with a victory for ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-01
The challenge of talent retention is gaining traction in the City’s policy dialogue for post-covid economy recovery. Per statistics from Census and Statistics Department, the City witnessed a net popu ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-31
Will the United States be number three in the new world order? In his forthcoming book, former journalist Hugh Peyman argues that it will: China’s economy has already surpassed that of the US by some ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-31
The contemporary individual is likely to lead a much longer life, with substantially greater material abundance, a wider range of places to which they can travel, a more stable and harmonious family l ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-31
... for the nation）和「對美國民主的最嚴重打擊」（worst attack on American ...全文
Essentially, all politicians seek power, whether to use it for the good of their electorate or to advance their personal agenda. A political system that lacks the means to restrain or prevent the abus ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-28
In thinking about how we learn best, I have come to the (plausibly premature) view that learning is best conducted through a ‘T’ paradigm - one that combines the vertical strip (delving deeply into a ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-28
In the fall of 2021, monetary economists in the United States were sharply divided between those who believed that high inflation would be short-lived (Team Transitory) and those who insisted it was h ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-28
... , a year later than planned. The Phoenix chip fabrication facility, or fab, involves a total investment of US$40 billion. More than 12,000 workers are on the site every day in a race to complete const ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-27
... bout the nature and role of the state. In the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution, mechanical power – mostly fueled by burning carbon – replaced human and animal power as a source for energy to b ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-27
By now, most people have heard the demographic prediction that India has already—or is about to—become the world’s most populous nation. Its growth is eclipsing China’s, which has been the world’s lar ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-27
... 入增5.71%。￭ AT&T第二季盈利按年升7.1%，優於預期；收入增0.9%，遜預期。公司公布已提前 ...全文
... o doubt that many Hong Kong people still like to read books. Reading is after all a good habit to have, and it makes you a lot of friends – dead or alive. But of course nowadays unless you do not play ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-26
