At the start of the year, I expressed concerns about the outlook for financial markets, owing to all the considerable uncertainties that I could identify, and to the many other potential risks that we ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-19
確診和死亡這兩個疫情統計數字,兩年多以來一直是焦點,也許是社會大眾真切關心,也許是傳媒朋友不離不棄,直至今時今 ...全文
The global economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and unprecedented spread of wildfires across five continents have reinvigorated scrutiny from investors and consumers of ecological and soc ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-18
Since the second quarter of 2021, inflation in the United Kingdom, the United States, and the eurozone has far exceeded their central banks’ 2% target. This surge could well be explained by the unexpe ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-17
隨着各地對COVID-19(新冠病毒)的防控措施日漸放寬,市民到外地公幹和旅遊的機會增加。然而,現時不少國家都 ...全文
COVID-19 has taken at least 18 million lives, and it is anyone’s guess how many of those deaths were due to a lack of medical oxygen. Governments don’t want to talk about the issue, because that could ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-13
When US Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau opened the Bretton Woods Conference almost 80 years ago, he reminded delegates that failures of international cooperation had led to the Great Depres ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-13
如果COVID-19的疫情是變幻不斷的天氣,影響着你和我的生活,那麼中風就如暴風雨一樣,叫人措手不及。 當中風 ...全文
Humanity currently faces multiple, interlinked existential crises. The catastrophic consequences of climate change, ecological degradation, and biodiversity loss have cascading knock-on effects on hum ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-12
Hong Kong's value to its country remains its openness, ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2022年05月11日
Hong Kong’s value to its country remains its openness, cosmopolitanism, and fundamental willingness to embrace and take on the unknown. It is its internationalism, as opposed to inward-looking nativis ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-10
The universities in Australia made a bold move last year, lowering the tuition fees by 42% in five subjects, including two medical-related subjects, nursing and clinical psychology. According to the E ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-10
A growing crescendo of commentary places the blame for the current surge in US inflation squarely on the Federal Reserve. But much of the criticism is stupefyingly naive about the political pressures ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-10
人們普遍認為,COVID-19的大流行嚴重影響了來自弱勢背景的兒童的心理健康。然而,社會決定因素(例如種族或社 ...全文
Europe seems to change most decisively as a result of crises. The European Union was created in the aftermath of World War II. The 2008 global financial crisis and the eurozone crisis that followed le ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-06
When Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, private-debt crises were probably already brewing – albeit hidden from view – in many parts of the world, as a result of the economic disruptions caused by the ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-06