... financed by progressive taxation, beneficiaries would be induced to participate in civil service (if not the military), pursue marketable courses of study, join the labor force, and thus pay taxes. T ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-02
... estimates by 4% above the levels consensus had expected, the strongest earnings surprise since Q2 2022. If the remainder of the reports before the end of the season are in line with expectations, the ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-02
... ly be met by domestic production, the thinking went, with plenty of oil remaining for export. But as market prices rose, governments failed to raise domestic prices and kicked the can down the road, f ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-01
... expressed by Terry Gou, founder of Foxconn, in an opinion piece in the Washington Post on July 17. Gou ran against Hou as KMT candidate but was defeated. “With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine showing tha ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-01
... as caused by a natural decrease, and the remainder 57% (38,800 persons) by net population outflow. Noteworthy is that the City saw an annual net outflow of 60,000 Hong Kong residents, representing a s ...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
... tury ago. By most indicators of objective life quality, the vast majority of humans around the world - with a few notable exceptions in countries that have regressed considerably over the course of th ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-31
... onduct is by way of Judicial Review, commonly abbreviated to ‘JR’. Contrary to a myth promulgated by politicians who loathe having their decisions questioned, the grounds on which a decision can be in ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-28
... of gold’ by identifying the approximate location where oil reserves are most abundant; it then drills down, and down, and down to the bottom of the seabed (and beyond), with the objective of finding ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-28
... s economy by boosting export competitiveness, but no such thing has occurred, at least not to any significant extent. Japan’s Team Transitory, however, sees no reason to worry about a sharp, let alone ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-28
After a record year in 2022, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is looking to a less successful 2023. It expects revenue this year to fall by 10 per cent year-on-year and its giant plan ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-27
... ly fueled by burning carbon – replaced human and animal power as a source for energy to be used in the transformation of nature and the production of industrial and consumer goods. As the revolution m ...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
... vel books by skipping a Café de Coral breakfast. Right, some of these travel books are outdated. But the world’s famous travel cities hardly change much in the last three years, I presume. Many people ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-26
... tion rose by 23.7% during the year to reach 20.28 million metric tons, according to official government estimates. Further increases are expected in the years ahead as efforts continue to meet the Min ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-26
... 遜銷售」（Sold by Amazon）計劃，協助內地製造商和商家儲存及運輸貨品，包括衣服、電子產品、廚房用具 ...全文
... increase by 2.7%. The United Nations projects India's population to reach 1.428 billion this year, surpassing that of mainland China. Meanwhile, nearly half of the country's population is under the a ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-25
... grown not by West African farmers, but in India, Thailand, and Vietnam. Rice has been cultivated in Africa for more than 3,000 years, and it is now grown by more than 35 million farmers in 40 countrie ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-25
