Many who now worry about rising inflation in the United States may disagree, but the US Federal Reserve should take a victory lap. Just consider what the Fed has achieved over the past two years. At t ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-29
The global economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic was always fragile, especially in the developing world. With Russia’s disastrous war in Ukraine, it has been all but shattered. But the invasion ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-28
The fifth wave of the epidemic has left Hong Kong people physically and mentally exhausted. The pictures are still vivid: the old and the weak waiting for treatment outside the emergency room in the c ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-28
Over the next weeks, the directors of three Chinese automakers -- Geely, Great Wall and Cherry -- must take a decision that could decide the future of their companies. Following Vladimir Putin’s invas ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-28
The world is well aware that the climate crisis is one of the main stumbling blocks to sustainable development. And yet, despite the dramatic evidence of the lethal consequences of climate change, and ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-25
Since the early 2000s, European leaders and intellectuals have pushed the idea that the European project is not merely about economic opportunities. At its core, they claim, is morality and the promot ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-25
Russia’s brutal shelling of Ukrainian cities continues. Thousands are dying, millions are suffering. Yet the West remains paralyzed about further action on what matters most: sanctions on Russian ener ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-25
The other day I tuned into my Disney+ and opted to watc ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2022年03月25日
The other day I tuned into my Disney+ and opted to watch ‘Turning Red’, a joint effort by Pixar Animation Studios (producer) and Walt Disney (distributor). Directed by Domee Shi (of Bao (2018) fame), ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-24
To be effective, economic sanctions depend on multilateral coordination. Freezing the Russian central bank’s holdings and kicking Russian banks out of the SWIFT financial messaging system for internat ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-24
The longer Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine goes on, the higher economic and diplomatic price China will have to pay for supporting him. On March 16, at the International Court of Justice in The H ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-24
... and diplomatic price China will have to pay for support ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2022年03月24日
... ings indicate that shortening operating hours did not h ...全文
Nothing is more assuring to investors than shares buyback in the ever-dragging pandemic. Take a case at the embattled Alibaba Group, which recovered from the shock of hitting as low as HK$71, a 76 per ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-23
Gold, traditionally considered a hedge against inflation, doesn’t appear to have benefited from the recent surge in U.S. consumer prices that have gone from 2% to 7.5% year on year as much as one migh ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-23
Water is becoming an ever more urgent problem as resources dwindle, while demand for clean water and sanitation increases. According to the UN, only one third of countries in the world will have susta ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-23
Swire Coca-Cola HK announced today that, in a stepped-up effort to support the community in getting through this unprecedented epidemic challenge, it has joined hands with The Coca-Cola Company to don ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-22
