“It is not new that the party regulates everything, including private businesses and especially private financial businesses, as this had been … explicitly stated in China’s constitution,” says Zhiwu Chen, a finance professor and director of the Asia Global Institute at the University of Hong Kong. “But many private businessmen did not take this seriously. The recent Ant episode was a wake-up call.”
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It has not taken long for the wheels to come off the Belt and Road Initiative. As recently as May 2017, China’s leader Xi Jinping stood in Beijing before a hall of nearly 30 heads of state and delegates from over 130 countries and proclaimed “a project of the century”.
12月5日—7日,凤凰网财经峰会在北京举行,据悉本次峰会以“破局与新生”为主题,梁振英、尚福林、殷勇、李扬、宋志平等多位政商学界嘉宾出席。 香港大学亚洲环球研究所所长陈志武在峰会上表示,在新冠病毒危机发生以后,富人的财富今年增长很多,而穷人今年财富没有任何增长。
最近幾年,香港的銀行黃金儲藏箱嚴重短缺。無論你跑到哪家銀行說想租保險箱保存金條,銀行都會告訴你保險箱早就被租完了。為什麼會這樣呢?大家知道,投資實物黃金,讓人頭痛的是要找個安全的地方把它藏起來,不能磨損,也不能被人偷。那要放在哪裡呢?如果量少,可以放在家裡鎖起來;如果量大,到銀行租保險箱是方法之一。但是,如果銀行保險箱也沒有了,那該怎麼辦呢?
美國這些年每年都有財政赤字,政府入不敷出,而且到2016年底,聯邦政府負債餘額為22.8兆美元,是美國GDP的一倍多。可是,從雷根、老布希、小布希到川普,只要是共和黨的人,從總統選舉期到實際成為總統後,都聲稱要減稅,而且他們當上總統後真的經常減稅,而不是增稅以減少政府負債。這到底是怎麼回事?政府已經很窮了,居然還要減稅,這到底是因為他們不負責任,還是背後有站得住腳的邏輯支撐?
期貨圈令人悲傷的新聞不少,而股票投資圈似乎較少見這樣的新聞,這難道是因為期貨的風險比股票更大嗎?背後的原因到底是什麼呢?
近期,欧洲及美国的第二波新冠肺炎的疫情来势凶猛。有经济学家预计,欧元区的经济将在今年四季度萎缩2.3%,复苏或因第二波疫情而夭折,而后陷入长期的低迷;更有金融机构分析称,过早重新开放企业的复工复产是一场大赌博,在没有疫苗的情况之下,美国各州正在冒着新一波疫情的风险,有可能使经济进一步地陷入尾旋式下跌。
When Jack Ma last week chose to speak truth to power about the failings of China’s financial system, he was aiming very high — perhaps too high. The founder of ecommerce business Alibaba, already China’s wealthiest man, was set to become substantially richer when his online finance spin-off Ant Group debuted on the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock exchanges on Thursday. At $37bn, it was going to be the world’s largest ever initial public offering.
Professor Zhiwu Chen, Director of Asia Global Institute & Victor and William Fung Professor in Economics, was interviewed by Financial Times about the long term impact of COVID-19 pandemic.