A major debate is in the making – or, more accurately, beginning to be reopened – in the United States about the appropriate objectives and triggers for monetary policy in the modern American economy. ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-05
Moves are afoot to replace or at least greatly weaken Kristalina Georgieva, the International Monetary Fund’s managing director since 2019. This is the same Georgieva whose excellent response to the p ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-04
Definition of a townhall (from the Cambridge English Di ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年08月31日
Definition of a townhall (from the Cambridge English Dictionary): “a public meeting at which a politician or official speaks about his or her policies and answers questions from members of the public. ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-27
The administration recently tightened entry rules for a ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年08月24日
The administration recently tightened entry rules for arrivals from 16 countries swept up in the resurgence of COVID-19, extending the length of the mandatory quarantine requirements to 21 days. Many ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-23
With less than three months until the United Nations climate change summit (COP26) in Glasgow in November, formal and informal discussions and pre-negotiations are now in full swing. A new US administ ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-13
Research into economic growth has a long and distinguished history, but the recent introduction of sustainability into the debate has given the field a necessary and overdue shake-up. In particular, a ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-30
The argument that speech must be free, must be unfetter ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年07月27日
The argument that speech must be free, must be unfettered, and must be protected at all costs – is by no means innovative. Yet at times when free speech is experiencing an active decline – under a com ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-26
he debate over stablecoins has come a long way since Facebook announced the creation of Libra (now rebranded Diem) almost exactly two years ago. An obscure corner of the digital sphere that was poorly ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-14
Investors like to call the market crash of Q1 2020 an “exogenous” event, a “black swan” – perhaps another way of saying that at least this time, it’s not anyone’s fault. That crisis had a profound dis ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-21
Slight increases in the rate of inflation in the United States and Europe have triggered financial-market anxieties. Has US President Joe Biden’s administration risked overheating the economy with its ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-09
世界局勢緊張多變，因中歐摩擦加劇，今年5月歐盟議會以多數票贊成，決定凍結《中歐投資協定》。即便暫時擱置，此協議 ...全文
Our world is extraordinarily inefficient. We waste enormous quantities of energy, water, raw materials, and food. We even waste our waste and the precious resources it contains. We do so not necessari ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-04
China has 341 million smokers, and sales and profits of its giant tobacco monopoly are growing. This year the e-tobacco market in China will exceed 10 billion yuan. These depressing figures were relea ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-03
China has 341 million smokers, and sales and profits of ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2021年06月03日
As the zeitgeist goes, it is imperative that Hong Kong ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年05月26日
As the zeitgeist goes, it is imperative that Hong Kong redresses its long-standing inequalities. Beijing is right – when it comes to housing, land, and the underlying socioeconomic tensions of our cit ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-25
