The Bank of Japan (BoJ) surprised markets on Wednesday by keeping its Yield Curve Control (YCC) policy unchanged. The BoJ’s decision temporarily pushed Japanese government bond (JGB) yields lower and ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-31
... n offered by three Acts of the Biden administration to electric vehicles, telecommunications and energy infrastructure. Disbursement of the money is linked in part to the degree of production within t ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-31
... d created by pandemic spending. Anyone with any faith in the market economy knew that the supply issues would be resolved eventually; but no one could possibly know when. After all, we have never endu ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-30
... spending by up to 55%. And in response to the 2014 oil-price crash, Mexico pared public spending by close to 0.7% of GDP. Although high prices may lead to economic booms, they inevitably fall – and o ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-30
... reflected by the salary – the higher the salary, the merrier the teacher, the better the teaching (that’s what one calls inference, I suppose). And then there are those who cynically frame teaching as ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-27
... missioned by the G20 concludes that these institutions are uniquely positioned to help governments achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. The G20 report argues that MDBs could expa ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-27
... ycle, led by inversion in the yield curve. In the U.S., two-year rates inverted with 10-year rates at the end of March 2022, with three-month rates following suit in October. Higher rates typically ti ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-27
Everyone agrees that, after the end of Zero-Covid, China’s economy will recover in 2023. But by how much? Mainstream banks predict GDP growth of between 4 per cent and 5.9 per cent. The Rhodium Group ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-26
... – it was by no means the first this year. Huu Can Tran – 72 years old. A shooter with a rather nondescript profile. A Vietnamese-American that had once worked as a dance teacher at the venue where he ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-26
... eoccupied by the Russo-Ukrainian War, with a lot of military assets having been sent to or earmarked for Ukraine, possibly at the expense of Taiwan’s defence needs. In December 2022, a letter from US ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-26
... 2023. But by how much? Mainstream banks predict GDP gro ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2023年01月26日
Farming is one of the world’s oldest and most far-reaching endeavors. Meeting the growing food demands of the global population – projected to reach ten billion by 2050 – amid accelerating climate cha ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-25
... “chicken” by jumping out of his car at the last moment while his rival miscalculates and drives off a California cliff. With the US economy barreling toward the cliff’s edge, it is clear that intransi ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-24
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... inspired by one he had visited in Davos, the same mountaintop site (the Schatzalp Hotel) where WEF-related galas are now held. This historical connection is all too fitting. Our current age of megath ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-20
... acterised by a surge or “revenge spending” in the initial phase of economic reopening, followed by a slower pace of growth. The slowdown was due in part to rising inflation and higher interest rates w ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-19
... ine owned by Cathay Pacific, cancelled dozens more flights to Tokyo, Osaka and Okinawa in the first two weeks of February as Japan imposed limits on the number of flights each carrier can operate from ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-18
... ? A study by the Legislative Council Secretariat cited the example of Singapore, pointing out that MiC has been extensively adopted due to labour shortage and high demand for building as many as 19,00 ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-18
