Jobs for Everyone
Until the 1990s, there was next to no unemployment in Hong Kong. Here’s why.
And why, today, there is
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Float the Hong Kong Dollar? Wait a minute…I want to sell it short first! When the Thai baht collapsed in July 1997 other Asian currencies fell like dominoes. Only the Hong Kong dollar and the Chinese yuan remained standing. The voices calling for the Hong Kong dollar’s “peg” to the US dollar to be abandoned became…
DetailsHong Kong’s Money Panic
Hong Kong’s Money Panic Around midday on Friday September 23rd, 1983, the latest round of Sino-British talks in Peking on the subject of Hong Kong’s future concluded. Very quickly it became apparent in Hong Kong that no progress had been made. The announcements that were were no announcements sparked a run on the Hong Kong…
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The “Goddess of Democracy” and the Future of Hong Kong
In the run-up to the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997, I was often asked my views on Hong Kong’s future. This article, written in 1991, was my response.
DetailsBird Flu? Bird Shmoo!!
Worried about the H5N1 bird flu virus causing a pandemic?
To go by the media, you should be.
But study the scientific evidence and you can only conclude that the media scare is mostly hype.
The Liberation of the Chinese Woman — and the Chinese Entrepreneur
How the free market freed women
and entrepreneurs in Hong Kong
Allende Erred
What caused Allende’s downfall? The major factor, I argued in this 1973 article, was the revolt of the middle class
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