Who could have expected this 10 years ago? The high-speed train, the cross-border bus and the cruise terminal all promised to bring over the rich uncles and aunties from the mainland to Hong Kong. Ins ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-16
What a difference two years make. In 2021, when interest rates were near zero in the United States and the United Kingdom and slightly negative in the eurozone and Japan, the consensus was that they w ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-16
In May, the US Environmental Protection Agency proposed new power-plant rules that would effectively require every existing coal- or gas-fired plant in the United States either to capture and store mo ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-15
Wang Li graduated from university with a degree in political science and public administration. Now she is working in Guiyang, southwest China, as a live-in domestic help. It is not her first choice, ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-15
... e to move on）；還補上一句，只會專注於與認真對待格鬥的人較技。言下之意，馬斯克一時放話頸背受傷要動 ...全文
US President Joe Biden and his team get little credit for their management of the American economy. Aware that the 2024 presidential election, like most, will turn on economic conditions, or perceptio ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-14
The 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) included - for the first time in history - burnout as an occupational phenomenon. ICD-11 defines burnout as “a syndrome conce ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-14
This year marks the halfway point for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the ambitious set of global targets introduced by the United Nations in 2015. These 17 goals, devised to ad ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-14
... Deux Garçon（兩男）即是一例。「兩男」老闆是R. Reid和JC Slowik，確是兩男子，二人曾 ...全文
The cost of feeding the world’s human population is taking a significant toll on our biodiversity. The world’s population reached eight billion in 2022 and it is expected to be between ten to twelve b ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-11
... o, but no one should be complacent: the world’s food woes are far from over. The risk of additional price volatility remains high. With Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annulment of the Black Sea Gr ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-11
In conversations with friends and colleagues I often hear the question, “What do the youth make of this?”, or “What, really, do the youth want?” As I have argued elsewhere in my assessment of events r ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-11
2022 was a year of inflation. Most central banks were behind the curve and had to tighten aggressively to catch up. In 2023, I think focus has been more centered around the economic cycle. Inflation i ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-11
Since the release of ChatGPT to the public late last year, generative AI has seen an exponential rate of adoption. The major breakthrough behind these models is the transformer architecture (first dev ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-10
Last week the U.S. Department of Justice charged Donald Trump with attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. It was the second Federal indictment against him in two months. ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-10
For nearly half a century, global warming has been worsening. After the hottest year on record last year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned lately that global temperatures could soar ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-10
