Well, it was fun while it lasted. Two decades of easy money with low to zero interests, further juiced by successive rounds of ever larger stimulus spending, turned prudent investment principle on its ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-16
A spectre haunts the state of international geopolitics. It is a spectre that has nought to do with military confrontations, nuclear weapons, or the most advanced of gadgets that states are resorting ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-10
“What gets measured gets done.” It is a well-worn maxim, attributed to everyone from management guru Peter Drucker to physicist Lord Kelvin. Regardless of who said it first, the point is a crucial one ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-08
World leaders, diplomats, intelligence officials, and scholars convened in Germany in February for the annual Munich Security Conference amid a raging land war in Europe and heightened geopolitical te ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-06
Five and nine are the two numbers to remember about the three-year-long pandemic in Hong Kong. Today finally marks the end of the mask mandate, known as the Prevention and Control of Disease (Wearing ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-01
Shopper behavior is always evolving, but the changes have been much more significant in the past few years, accelerated by various payment-oriented technology and applications as well as the impact of ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-28
India is poised to become the world’s most important country in the medium term. It has the largest population (which is still growing), and with a per capita GDP that is just one-quarter that of Chin ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-23
According to the report Monitoring of Solid Waste in Hong Kong - Waste Statistics for 2020 released by the Environmental Protection Department (EPD), the total quantity of municipal solid waste (MSW) ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-21
China will likely experience a rapid, short-term economic lift this year as the global economy recovers from the pandemic. Beyond the issues on the surface, the Chinese economy is undergoing a more pr ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-20
Smart devices, especially smartwatches, are becoming more popular which can be divided into two categories: 1. Those aiming at healthcare, with varying degrees of accuracy. Some people joke that some ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-15
For Hong Kong to be truly back, we must go maskless – now. Dropping the inane mask requirement is a necessary but insufficient part of Hong Kong’s trek towards normalisation. The following makes the c ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-14
From the growing presence of artificial intelligence in our daily lives to novel medical therapies, progress in science and technology affects us all – mostly in positive ways. But the pace of change ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-14
According to the first world report on vision issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2019, at least 2.2 billion people have a vision impairment or blindness globally, which forms a huge fina ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-10
