中環MY CENTRAL高層D室，實用面積811方呎，3房1套間隔，望海景，月租叫價4.9萬元，最新以4.5萬 ...全文
The background is a snow-covered field in east Ukraine whose trees and vegetation has been destroyed. Speaking to the camera is a Chinese in a Russian army uniform, tears in his eyes. “I am going to d ...More
EJ Insight2024-02-28
When I arrived in Taiwan in the summer of 1981, the island was under martial law and producing radios and sports shoes. Today, it makes the world’s most advanced semi-conductors and has just held a bo ...More
EJ Insight2024-01-29
Monetary-policy watchers are currently divided into two groups. But perhaps both sides should pause and reflect on where we were 18 months ago and where we are now. On one side of the divide are those ...More
EJ Insight2024-01-09
The Western-led global economic order had a bad 2023. Surprisingly, the primary cause was not the emergence of an alternative order led by China, as some had anticipated. Instead, it was internal stre ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-19
With clockwork inevitability, the proposal by a number of US lawmakers to introduce the Hong Kong Sanctions Act provoked a locust swarm of vitriolic protests. The idea of sanctioning 49 Hong Kong offi ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-21
There’s no doubt that today we’re in the grip of a remarkable and quite unprecedented societal shift that is radically changing the geography of work. A shift that, by enabling people to choose to wor ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-20
Recently, we have seen the 10-year US government bond rise above 5 per cent again, while a 30-year mortgage in the US has reached 8 per cent. The market expects that the high interest rate levels crea ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-15
Those who know me would know that I have long been a fervent advocate of promoting competitive debating – in both English and Chinese – across China, including, of course, in Hong Kong. Yet debating i ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-08
中環MY CENTRAL中層C室，實用面積663方呎，2房間隔。單位新近以每月3.4萬元租出，實用呎租逾51元 ...全文
中環MY CENTRAL低層E室，實用面積821方呎，3房1套連儲物室間隔，以4萬元租出，實用呎租49元，屬市 ...全文
When I coined the BRIC acronym back in 2001, my primary point was that global governance would need to adjust to incorporate the world’s largest emerging economies. Not only did Brazil, Russia, India, ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-28
My current visit to Israel has coincided with a period of unprecedented political turmoil. A radical right-wing government’s package of legislation to disempower the judiciary has started to be adopte ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-02
World leaders are all too familiar with the global community’s challenges – loss of progress in our fight against poverty, an existential climate crisis, a fledgling pandemic recovery, and a crippling ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-18
During my lengthy career in finance, I picked up several market heuristics that have generally proven more useful than not. Every January, for example, I remember the “five-day rule,” which holds that ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-18
It would be reasonable to think real estate investors might welcome the anticipation of financial markets that the Fed will pivot to cut rates later this year. Rising interest rates have been a leadin ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-28
Reacting to Silicon Valley Bank’s sudden collapse, André Esteves, a senior Brazilian banking executive, recently told Bloomberg that “SVB’s interest rate risk would’ve been obvious to any banking inte ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-06
The run on Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) – on which nearly half of all venture-backed tech start-ups in the United States depend – is in part a rerun of a familiar story, but it’s more than that. Once aga ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-15
