... in reach; by slowing effective action, the tactics of today’s populists are becoming an existential threat. This trend is reversible, but it is tenacious. Following former US President Donald Trump’s ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-05
... tly abide by the confidentiality regulations and agreements, and shall not be allowed to disclose the selection tasks and personal information of candidates to unrelated persons, and they won’t be all ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-05
Companies as well as academic institutions are operating amid growing geopolitical tensions in the South China Sea heightened by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan last month. Calling the ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-04
... ni-budget by new Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng on September 23, in which he announced sweeping tax cuts costing 45 billion pounds without explaining how he would finance them. This follow ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-04
... ed States by three, five, and eight percentage points, respectively. That said, interest rates can rise very quickly, especially if markets lose confidence. The Truss government’s two most problematic ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-04
... wled over by this artful logic, I pointed out that as this was not clinically necessary, it could only be to enable the hospital to make money. She smiled. I asked why I should be compelled to be comp ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-03
... ould rise by too much and the Fed’s reaction would be too restrained. In this scenario, inflationary expectations would become elevated or unanchored, and the economy would end up in 1970s-style stagf ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-03
Global markets rallied hard from the lows in June on hopes of a Federal Reserve (the Fed) pivot before correcting in mid-August. The correction was mainly driven by the Federal Reserve’s message durin ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-03
... mic value by the local private sector alone through better use of geospatial data, however, it is not easy to make full use of data. A report from the Legislative Council Secretariat pointed out that ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-03
... d, driven by market forces and monetary-policy tightening.” While S&P’s rating action will not materially affect the UK’s access to credit, it represented yet another embarrassment – along with ex ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-03
... en marked by a similar mix. The dollar is now highly overvalued – at least according to the standard valuation criteria – and one must wonder when some holders might start to sell (remember rule numbe ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-30
Not so long ago, the far right in Europe was associated with shabby old men nostalgic for the good old days of order and jackboots. The far-right political parties in France and Italy, now led by wome ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-30
... came down by almost 150bps between 2012 and 2022, compared with the 10 years before. Why does this matter? The US real rate arguably is the most important discount proxy in global markets, not only fo ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-30
... ly pushed by markets to do more – and for good reason, given that core inflation is running at 6.3% and still rising – the Fed’s latest policy actions duly caused another sharp reduction in prices for ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-29
... icy rates by 25 basis points, and the Philippine central bank by 50 basis points, in August. Inflation stood at 7.9% in Thailand, 6.3% in the Philippines, 5.7% in South Korea, and 4.7% in Indonesia th ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-29
... omplished by restoring data to a sandbox or an isolated area, to test the safety. This practice of isolation and “staged restoring” occurs in only 46% of organizations worldwide, and 41% by organizati ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-29
... s go down by 20 per cent year-to-date as sterling fell to a historic low against the US dollar since 1971. One can also argue that some of them were able to sell their Hong Kong assets earlier at high ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-28
... derpinned by shared data infrastructure and common rules and standards. It is difficult to argue with the logic behind this vision. But in a region as diverse as Asia, translating it into reality woul ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-28
