El Salvador this month became the first country to adopt a cryptocurrency – in this case, Bitcoin – as legal tender. I say the first, because others might follow. But they should think twice, because ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-27
... evelopment. The “Construction Plan for the Chinese Medicine Highlands in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (2020-2025)” has proposed policies that benefit Hong Kong people and their busin ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-26
A stream of recent data suggests that the global economy is showing signs of stagflation, that odd 1970s-style mixture of rising inflation and declining growth. Those who have noticed it – and there a ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-24
How will the global economy and markets evolve over the next year? There are four scenarios that could follow the “mild stagflation” of the last few months. The recovery in the first half of 2021 has ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-24
For over 3,000 years, Mid-Autumn Festival has been the second-most important holiday after Lunar Chinese New Year. It dates back to when ancient Chinese worshipped the moon for bountiful harvests. Not ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-21
The US experienced its worst recorded drought in decades this summer. At its height, the unprecedented aridity extended across more than two-thirds of the continental area of theUnited States, with it ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-21
... ary cycles. It’s the idiosyncratic drivers of return behind different asset classes that provide genuine diversification, alongside global macro themes. Chinese equities, most notably A-shares, offer ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-17
... ly glaring. This November will be the 20th anniversary of the BRIC acronym, which I first used in a 2001 Goldman Sachs paper entitled “Building Better Global Economic BRICs.” At the time, I offered fo ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-17
The global food system is unsustainable. While it is worth approximately $8 trillion annually, its negative impact is valued at roughly $12 trillion. And this is not the system’s only contradiction. A ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-17
... f business. The availability and access to critical data and applications has reached a new level of criticality, as every sector of business and society accelerates adoption of digital capabilities. ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-16
People have been using “exit” as a suffix for a decade or so. Grexit, referring to a potential Greek departure from the eurozone, was the first to emerge. Italexit made a brief appearance, and has rec ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-16
... te scholar. Social media platforms glamourise the insta ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年09月16日
These are tough times to be a genuinely erudite scholar. Social media platforms glamourise the instant – as if the speed of consumption and consumability had anything to do with the quality of the inf ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-15
If you want to understand policy choices, it is said, “follow the money.” Inspired by that advice, we at The Nature Conservancy (in partnership with the Paulson Institute and the Cornell Atkinson Cent ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-14
Extreme weather has become more frequent in recent years, even developed metropolises cannot escape the devastation. In the past few months, London, Zhengzhou inChina, and New York have all experience ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-14
Swaths of Europe are flooded, and the American west is engulfed in heat, fire, and drought. Wealthy countries are experiencing what many developing countries have always known: a changing climate can ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-13
As this year’s brutal summer showed, it has become increasingly easy to track the consequences of climate change. Just as extreme weather is claiming more and more human lives, more and more species a ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-13
Seven years ago LegCo started to discuss the regulation of electronic cigarettes. Finally, public health advocates believe, it will next month pass a bill that outlaws the import, production, distribu ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-13
... superhero. He is not white – for starters (obviously); ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年09月11日
