On July 1, Chief Executive John Lee, marking the 26th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region after the return of Hong Kong to China by Britain, asserted that ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-07
... expected by market participants. By contrast, those same measures suggest that the European central banks may still be behind their inflation curve and may need to tighten policy even more substantia ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-07
... reshoring by offering generous government support for firms building green-manufacturing capacity in the country. Following suit, the European Union’s Net-Zero Industry Act introduces a domestic clean ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-07
... s imposed by its trading partners. While efforts to level the playing field between foreign and domestic producers are understandable and permitted under WTO rules, erecting trade barriers for environ ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-04
We seem to live in an era of rolling financial crisis, which I suspect is the result of a massive build-up of private sector debt. Sometimes these build-ups are accompanied by very high rates of credi ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-04
... January. By contrast, if you had performed the same experiment with long-term US Treasury bonds, you would have only 41 times your initial wealth. That is the difference between an average annual inf ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-03
... s success by projecting a more moderate image. What explains the tenacity of Trump’s support? The force of his arguments is unlikely to be the key, because he makes few coherent arguments. It is rarel ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-03
... 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
