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Macroscope | Inflated asset prices show markets don’t always know best

Stock prices are nervously high, bond and real estate prices are under downward pressure, cryptocurrency assets have sustained falls and…

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Opinion | Why manufacturing is still key to China’s development goals

Following the Communist Party of China’s fourth plenum, debate has intensified over the direction of the country’s economy, with manufacturing…

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Will China’s next 5-year plan rewrite its infrastructure playbook?

As China drafts its 15th five-year plan – the next entry in a line of expansive blueprints that have set…

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Macroscope | Why the cost of buying economic growth is destined to rise

It is tempting to think that the global economy has become immune to shocks despite multiple ongoing physical conflicts, trade…

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Fed’s rate cut to fuel property investment globally, but Hong Kong faces hurdles

The resumption of a policy easing cycle following the US Federal Reserve’s quarter-point interest-rate reduction is likely to spur more…

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Macroscope | Why world must heed boy crying wolf over risk of financial crisis

There is an old joke that economic commentators have predicted nine out of the past five recessions. The implication is…

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Hong Kong’s 1980s nightlife culture makes dazzling return at site of old Club Bboss

More than a decade after Club Bboss was closed, a new nightspot has launched on the same site where the…

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Macroscope | How the obsession with risky assets is putting global finance in peril

Fashionable, frivolous or downright foolish? Which of these words best describes the trend in markets toward derivatives, cryptocurrencies, digital assets…

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Deconstructing art: as China’s iconic Dafen village reels, AI takes orders from artists

In more ways than one, the painting is on the wall for a famed village in southern China where hundreds…

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Opinion | Another US-China trade war? How about a war on income inequality

Despite the dire state of Sino-US relations, US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping can strike a deal…

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