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- 1520 POSTSDo You Snap?
You may have heard it back in 2011, a cumulative groan heard around the world...
The global financial system’s weakened defences
Eighty-five years ago this month, Credit-Anstalt, by far the largest bank in Austria, collapsed. By...
Breeding policies?
Macau is currently discussing its first Five-Year Plan. The draft document has been submitted for...
Measuring the value of free
Reliable economic statistics are a vital public good. They are essential to effective policymaking, business...
Emerging markets should go for the gold
Are emerging-market central banks overweight in dollars and underweight in gold? Given a slowing global...
Imagining a New Bretton Woods
The financial meltdown of 2008 prompted calls for a global financial system that curtails trade...
Digital Justice
As some of you may know, besides writing these columns I am also a lawyer...
The global growth funk
The International Monetary Fund and others have recently revised downward their forecasts for global growth...
Where are you from?
“Don’t ask where I’m from, ask where I’m a local” was the advice presented by...
A role reversal for Myanmar and Thailand
Rarely do next-door neighbours move as rapidly in opposite political directions as Thailand and Myanmar...
Barbs aside
The discussion about changing the renting regime goes on at the Legislative Assembly. The debate...
Barbs aside
The discussion about changing the renting regime goes on at the Legislative Assembly. The debate...
The Fed’s gamble on surplus labour
In recent weeks, the US Federal Reserve has buoyed markets by adopting a more gradual...
To be continued . . .
The Chief Executive recently went to the Legislative Assembly for a Q & A session....
Hengqin ready to roll, says marketing GM
Hengqin representative reveals that Macau single licence plate vehicles may enter Hengqin in one or...
Yes, Hengqin!
It is not the first time that I touch on this theme but yesterday we...
Lost Opportunities
In today’s commercial market the immediate impulse of the consumer is to search for a...
Germany’s costly fiscal fetish
The European Central Bank is under heavy attack in Germany, a country that has long...
Not there yet
Since the beginning of the big contraction, at one moment or the other we heard...
Unsustainable development goals?
From 2000 to 2015, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) focused minds and budgets on global...