... ience and weather upcoming headwinds. Businesses that are well-versed and well-prepped to ride on these trends can pivot their strategies accordingly when challenges arise. 1. The rise of smart and ec ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-17
... 0 billion were exempted from the stricter supervision (including capital and stress testing) to which large banks are subjected. The grounds for doing so – that such banks do not pose systemic risks t ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-17
... and the power of a small number of giant industry incumbents, farms are being consolidated in the name of efficiency and economies of scale. As a result, the European Union lost more than one-third of ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-16
Well, it was fun while it lasted. Two decades of easy money with low to zero interests, further juiced by successive rounds of ever larger stimulus spending, turned prudent investment principle on its ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-16
One of the first English sentences we learned from Primary One was “I go to school by bus”. Despite being Chinglish, it was a memory embedded in our minds for decades although the phrase has become an ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-15
... Jerome Powell assured Congress that the financial condition of America’s banks was sound. But the timing should not be surprising. Given the large and rapid increases in interest rates Powell enginee ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-15
... eement between the Hong Kong Observatory and Shenzhen Meteorological Bureau. Under the agreement, Hong Kong side was responsible for providing professional knowledge and technology in forecasting as w ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-14
In recent times, we have witnessed lively discussions on how diversity can impact the success of an organisation. It is now well known that representation across different demographics brings a wide r ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-13
... nd wind power. Global EV sales boomed last year, rising to 13% of all new vehicles sold, up from 8.6% in 2021. Much of this growth came from China, where EV sales doubled in 2022, to 6.9 million (26% ...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
A spectre haunts the state of international geopolitics. It is a spectre that has nought to do with military confrontations, nuclear weapons, or the most advanced of gadgets that states are resorting ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-10
We live in an era of polarisation. From radical identity politics, to racist bigotry directed towards immigrants; from chauvinistic militarism and nationalism, to unapologetic and unnuanced embracing ...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
... ft in how we communicate and come to understand the world together. I have been thinking about these issues because Farrell recently published a new article, “The Moral Economy of High-Tech Modernism. ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-09
... e Unions, we get to know nearly three-quarters of local women do not want to have babies, a record high. Specifically, half of them do not want kids in the next five years. If this is true, this will ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-08
