At the end of 2020, Paul Leung and his wife invested NT$6 million in a business in Taiwan, to meet the criteria as an investor immigrant. A year later, they applied for permanent residency but were to ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-10
... ic landing. When the recession comes, I warned, it will be severe and protracted, with widespread financial distress and debt crises. Notwithstanding their hawkish talk, central bankers, caught in a d ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-07
On great power politics – some say, the East shall prevail; others say, the West shall win out. The presumption underpinning the “X wins, Y loses” logic, is that the nature of hegemonic contests is in ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-06
... ll win out. The presumption underpinning the "X wins, Y ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2022年10月06日
Reactionary populism is now the biggest obstacle to tackling climate change. With outright climate denial no longer an option, populist politicians have increasingly positioned themselves as climate d ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-05
Companies as well as academic institutions are operating amid growing geopolitical tensions in the South China Sea heightened by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan last month. Calling the ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-04
... s possible.” This was what Cecil Rhodes, one of Britain’s leading imperialists, wrote in Kimberley, South Africa in 1877. Within 20 years, the Empire comprised 25 per cent of the globe’s land surface ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-04
... hyperbole. Many now wonder whether the United Kingdom is coming to resemble less an advanced economy than a wayward emerging market. True, financial markets have sent the pound spinning to its lowest ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-04
Soon after the 2020 presidential election, the incoming Biden administration set about mapping out its economic agenda. It took pains to avoid three mistakes. First, it was committed not to fall into ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-03
After earning my PhD in 1982, I spent the first 20 years of my professional career immersed in the tumultuous world of foreign-exchange markets. Today, current events are bringing back both happy and ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-30
Valuations have been the moving part in equity markets this year. The S&P 500 price-to earnings ratio (PE) has dropped from the close to 22 times 12-month forward earnings at the end of last year ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-30
Financial markets’ reaction to the US Federal Reserve’s latest policy move was reminiscent more of developing countries than of the world’s most powerful economy. Given that the Fed is the world’s mos ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-29
... ed sharply. Markets knew that this would spur the US Federal Reserve to announce another significant interest-rate hike. And that is exactly what happened. But the pain of monetary tightening is just ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-29
... tely vital. As someone who has worked with students across a range of capacities – qua debating coach, consultancy and admissions support, and general mentorship – I have a few thoughts that would hop ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-28
Britain is at the cusp of a spectacular disaster. By la ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2022年09月28日
Britain is at the cusp of a spectacular disaster. By late July this year, the triple whammy of COVID-19, Brexit, and the war in Ukraine had precipitated an unprecedented inflation crisis in the countr ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-27
There are some things businesses simply have no control over. They can’t control inflation, or how aggressively central banks respond to it. They can do little about rising costs, which are pushing th ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-26
